Look at Me

by Jennifer Egan · 2009

When fashion model Charlotte Swenson survives a devastating car crash, eighty titanium screws hold her shattered face together. Back in New York, she is still strikingly beautiful but feels like a stranger in the world she once dominated. Jennifer Egan weaves Charlotte’s story with those of a seemingly ordinary teenage girl leading a perilous double life, an alcoholic private eye haunted by his past, and a chameleon‑like stranger plotting an apocalyptic act against American society. As their paths intersect, the novel becomes a sleek, intellectual thriller that probes the cost of our obsession with image, identity, and the masks we wear.