In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past--and takes inventory of the damages that underpin the surface-glamour of social media.
Propulsive, dark, and moving, Aesthetica is a Veronica for the age of Instagram face, delivering a fresh, nuanced examination of feminism, #MeToo, and mother-daughter relationships, all while confronting our collective addiction to followers, filters, and faux realities..
With the hours ticking down to her surgery, she must confront the ugly truth about her experiences on and off the Instagram grid.
But on the eve of the surgery, her traumatic past resurfaces when she is asked to participate in the public takedown of her former manager/boyfriend, who has rebranded himself as a paragon of woke masculinity in the post-#MeToo world.
Provided she survives the knife.
She\'s about to undergo the high-risk, elective surgery Aesthetica(TM), a procedure that will reverse all her past plastic surgery procedures, returning her, she hopes, to a truer self.
She too is seeking rebirth.
Now, at 35, she works behind the cosmetic counter at the black and white store, peddling anti-aging products to women seeking physical and spiritual transformation.
At 19, she was an Instagram celebrity.
In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past--and takes inventory of the damages that underpin the surface-glamour of social media
