Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
"All these thousands of miles later, all these different people I've been, and it's still the same story. Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?"
The narrator was once a gorgeous model, now left monstrously disfigured after a messy drive-by. Her jaw was shot off, leaving just her tongue & top row of teeth to show as a trophy for her pain. Quickly, nearly everything she once had (fiance, seemingly wonderful modelling career) is gone. Enter: Brandy Alexander. An amazingly sassy and gorgeous transgender woman, who pushes the narrator (whose name is revealed 3/4 of the way through the novel) to do what scares her most and forget about the past. Then Brandy & the narrator, accompanied by a male friend, go on a road-trip to try to find themselves. Oh yeah, and visit mansions that are up for sale, steal their prescription medication, and then sell it. And pop some for themselves. All the while forming an amazing friendship, and realizing some secrets of their own.
As with Palahniuk's other work, there are a few plot twists (or as he refers to call them: hidden guns). Some of them left me so shocked that I had to reread the parragraph just to make sure I wasn't imagining things.
Of course, I loved it. I love all of Palahniuk's work. It almost seems like the more and more I read it, the better it becomes.
The narrator was once a gorgeous model, now left monstrously disfigured after a messy drive-by. Her jaw was shot off, leaving just her tongue & top row of teeth to show as a trophy for her pain. Quickly, nearly everything she once had (fiance, seemingly wonderful modelling career) is gone. Enter: Brandy Alexander. An amazingly sassy and gorgeous transgender woman, who pushes the narrator (whose name is revealed 3/4 of the way through the novel) to do what scares her most and forget about the past. Then Brandy & the narrator, accompanied by a male friend, go on a road-trip to try to find themselves. Oh yeah, and visit mansions that are up for sale, steal their prescription medication, and then sell it. And pop some for themselves. All the while forming an amazing friendship, and realizing some secrets of their own.
As with Palahniuk's other work, there are a few plot twists (or as he refers to call them: hidden guns). Some of them left me so shocked that I had to reread the parragraph just to make sure I wasn't imagining things.
Of course, I loved it. I love all of Palahniuk's work. It almost seems like the more and more I read it, the better it becomes.