New Skin

Sarah Wang’s New Skin is a marvel. Mirthfully and mercilessly abject, New Skin is a page-turner that feels equal parts cinematic romp and serrated analysis of some of the most important issues of our day: immigration, assimilation, debt, intergenerational suffering, self-immolation, and the possibilities for repair. A truly original debut from a seriously intelligent writer – Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts
New Skin offers a brilliantly dark account of a mother and her daughter locked in a relationship with each other and the wider world that no amount of surgery can cure. Sarah Wang’s novel is intense, engaging, original and hilarious – Colm Tóibín, bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island
Horror, crime, and coming-of-age genres collide wildly in Sarah Wang’s inventive and brilliant debut novel. Completely engaging, surprising and beautifully written – Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick and The Four Spent the Day Together
New Skin holds almost all of womanhood: impossible beauty standards, the inverted mother–daughter bond, and an adulthood rooted in the endless negotiation between obligation and shared trauma. This dynamite book is unsparing and darkly funny. It asks why does leaving often mean staying, and why does self-preservation so often become self-destruction? – Weike Wang, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of Chemistry

Sarah Wang teaches creative writing at Barnard College. She has written for The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Republic, Harper’s Bazaar, n+1, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, and McSweeney’s. She lives in New York. New Skin is her debut novel.

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