Look at Me by Jennifer Egan is a novel that has a fascinating concept, but didn't really work as a good story. Egan explores the idea of image, that we are what we see.
It is the story of a model in NYC who gets in a horrible car crash and her face, though still beautiful, is unrecognizable even to those who used to know her well. A plain looking teenage girl embarks on her own dangerous journey to be seen. A terrorist changes his image completely to fit into American society, and a half crazy history professor is writing a book about the changes in the world once glass was invented and we could see clearly, see ourselves for the first time.
The book got stuck in its own cleverness, and the characters were unlikeable and even harder to relate to. I wanted to like this book, but I just didn't.
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