Goop horror: The new wave of literature skewering the beauty industry

In Sarah Wang’s debut novel New Skin , a Chinese immigrant mother in Los Angeles spends her benefit payments on backstreet cosmetic procedures. When things go catastrophically awry, her daughter discovers that some of the substances being illegally injected into faces would be more at home on building sites.

Wang, who researched the novel partly through immersion in the American reality showhellip;

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