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Name: Invisible Monsters
Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Author: Chuck Palahniuk

Shannon McFarland, a celebrated top model, has everything she could desire: love, a thriving career, and friends. Yet her world shatters when a mysterious gunman shoots her in the face while she drives, rendering her disfigured and mute. Suddenly she becomes a marginalized figure, rejected by everyone, including her boyfriend Manus and her close friend Evie. In the hospital, Shannon meets Princess Brandy Alexander, a trans woman just months from gender‑reassignment surgery. Brandy takes Shannon on a provocative journey that leads her to confront her betrayers, discover the true nature of identity, and transform her sense of self.

First publish date: 1999

Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction

Authors: Chuck Palahniuk

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