Cut Away

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 fas...