At the start of this edgy and multilayered novel a model named CharlotteSwenson emerges from a car accident with her face shattered. She returns to NewYork stil... » 

At the start of this edgy and multilayered novel a model named CharlotteSwenson emerges from a car accident with her face shattered. She returns to NewYork still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable. With the surreal authority ofDavid Lynch Egan threads Charlottes narrative with those of other casualtiesof infatuation with the image. «