{"product_id":"new-skin","title":"New Skin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA scalding, darkly humorous debut following an enmeshed mother-daughter duo, both best friends and enemies, and the plastic surgery addiction that warps their lives into a perilous spiral.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Wang debuts with the spectacular and wrenching story of a woman contending with her mother's plastic surgery addiction...This bracing tale goes much more than skin deep.\" \u003c\/b\u003e-- \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt twenty-six, Linli Feng is still trying to escape her mother Fanny's orbit. But after three years of estrangement, just when Linli has been accepted into a prestigious graduate program, she is dragged back by Fanny's latest medical catastrophe and forced to return home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor decades, Fanny has been addicted to plastic surgery, getting bargain procedures in the basements of LA's bootleg beauty industry. Now Fanny's disfigured face is in dangerous revolt, infected and collapsing yet again from black-market injectables.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut even as Linli wades through the wreck of family finances and juggles her mother's medical care, Fanny has another secret in store. Fanny has won a spot on America's Beauty Extreme, a reality television competition in which botched plastic surgery addicts compete for reconstructive surgery as riveted audiences tune in. When Linli attempts to rescue Fanny from the sinister subculture that has already claimed her mother's face, she must at last confront the corrosive reality of the American Dream that is at the fraught heart of their relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Wang \u003c\/b\u003ehas written for \u003ci\u003e The New Yorker, The Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation, The New Republic, Harper's Bazaar, n+1, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBOMB, \u003c\/i\u003eamong other publications. Wang is a 2023 NYSCA\/NYFA Fellow, a 2023 MacDowell Fellow, a 2020 Center for Fiction Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow, and the winner of a Barbara Deming Award and a Nelson Algren prize for fiction. She teaches writing at Barnard College and lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarah Wang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51281335091485,"sku":"9780316594523","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780316594523.jpg?v=1778706301","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/new-skin","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}