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

They burn their metaphorical boats that sow doubt

" —Martha Lane Fox

but a dragon's legacy is priceless—and as dangerous as fire

the Big Cheese hosts a gigantic jamboree with flashy decorations

he was enthralled by the Dacian dancer

“I really

and werewolves

everywhere

set in an immersive world full of dragons

uncompromising look at what it means to live as an Indigenous person “in the rupture” between identities

the connection between them is too intense to ignore

fights to preserve her precious demokracy and her exiled husband