Natural Beauty

Natural BeautyWinner of the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction Longlisted for the PEN Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Sly, surprising, and razor sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parentsalso talented musicianswho fled China in the wake of

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When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty '90s Chicago art scene