Cut Away is a novel that expertly entwines the lives of three characters struggling to understand the meaning of identity and its seeming mutability.Orbiting around the mystery of a missing teenager, a trio of narrators each tells her story in turn. ALexandra is a transgendered woman who has redused surgery and abandoned Los Angeles for a trailer at the desolate Salton Sea. Asas, the mother of the runaway, wants her grief-ridden face completely transformed. Elanor, a plastic surgeon, is fascinated with surfaces amd wonders whether visual harmony has the power to change what lies beneath.
in a culture obsessed with transforming the body, do the incarnate fiction we create have the power to hide of reveal the truth of who we really are?this is a question that Catherin Kirkwood approaches in a stunning debut novel of desire, self -loathing, and the revisionary madness of our modern world.
