Read by: T. C. Boyle
Language: English
Length: 19 minutes
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Release date: 2013-11-20
This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the Kenyon Review.
A divorcée disturbed by her upcoming thirty-fifth birthday decides to get a Botox treatment. But then she develops a crush on the plastic surgeon, whose secretary looks like a walking advertisement for the whole industry. When he spurns her advances, she's thrown further into a crisis of self-image, wanting only to see herself in a new light, as something better.