Beautyland: A Novel

Toni has stopped trying to tame her thick, screaming hair and it has repaid her by arcing around her face in a way that gives her chin narrative.

“molti muscoli.”

This emboldens Adina to make the mistake countless writers before her have made. She attempts to write about New York City.

abeyance

gyre

Adina realizes friendships are reincarnations.

If they have the right perfume but not in eight ounces—for example, the twelve-ounce bottle—she will not buy it. Even though the twelve-ounce bottle costs less per ounce. They cannot afford to be smart with money.

One particular model on Anthropologie’s website appears to be in perpetual agony. She startles Adina as she scrolls the store’s wares: a smile, a beatific glance, then her: devastated. In a hip-length top, a flowy jumpsuit, a drop-waisted wrap dress, she is inconsolable. So different from the other models, pleasant and isolated in their editorial p

Human beings design irrigation systems that carry water billions of miles but cannot invent an ironing board that opens without sounding like a metal seizure.