This novel explores the American Dream through plastic surgery addiction

New Skin opens in a hospital waiting room, where, just a few pages in, Fanny Feng is receiving leech therapy on her botched nose. She’s accompanied by her daughter, the novel’s protagonist, Linli, who, after several years of estrangement, has been forced to return home to Los Angeles when her mother’s repeated plastic surgeries result in yet another medical complication. “The differing aesthetic goals of myriad doctors had made herhellip;

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