RaveSlateA deep investigation into creativity, a meditation on hope, and an earnest celebration of living.
Jennifer Egan
RaveThe NationAfter surviving both a car crash that shattered every bone in her face and a series of reconstructive surgeries, Charlotte must design a new life, having been given a face that's unrecognizable not only to those from her past, but to her as well. This Charlotte holds the center of Look at Me … Look at Me shouldn't be lumped together with the skin-deep works of Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney. Charlotte isn't your average fictional model. To the extent that she's obsessed with appearances, it's only to look for a person's ‘shadow self’ … Look at Me is about bigger things: double lives; secret selves; the difficulty of really seeing anything in a world so flooded with images.
