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Apr 4, 2023 · Nominee for Best Horror (2023) Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can.
Ling Ling Huang is a violinist and writer. Committed to expanding the concepts of tradition, Ling Ling is an active presence in the New York musical scene, appearing on stages from Carnegie Hall to National Sawdust. Her debut novel, Natural Beauty, will be published in April 2023 by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Natural Beauty is a 2023 satirical horror novel by Ling Ling Huang that explores the intersection of beauty and wellness standards with social issues like classism, racism, and sexism. Her debut novel, it was published on April 4, 2023, by Dutton.
Apr 4, 2023 · Constance Wu and author Ling Ling Huang chat candidly about beauty standards, chasing acceptance, and navigating their Asian American identities within the beauty space.
“Ling Ling Huang amplifies and expands the future of horror fiction with a book so riveting it is impossible to put down.” —Rikki Ducornet, author of Phosphor in Dreamland “ Natural Beauty uses elements of sci-fi, fantasy, and body horror to cut to bone-deep truths about consumerism, race, identity, appearance, and the exhausting ...
Apr 4, 2023 · Ling Ling Huang understands this neurosis, and in “Natural Beauty,” she plumps it up into its most profane. When we meet our unnamed protagonist, she’s a piano-playing child prodigy whisked away...
Ling Ling Huang is a writer and violinist. She plays with several ensembles including the Music Kitchen, Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra, Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra, Shattered Glass, and Experiential Orchestra, with whom she won a Grammy award in 2020. Natural Beauty is her first novel.
