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'New Skin' and the botched quest for beauty

It's Been a Minute by NPR

May 22, 202618:51Society & Culture

What happens when you can't recognize your mom anymore? For Linli, the protagonist of the book New Skin , this is her reality: her mom Fanny has gone through so many back-alley plastic surgery procedures, Fanny’s face ba...

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'New Skin' and the botched quest for beauty is an episode from It's Been a Minute by NPR. What happens when you can't recognize your mom anymore? For Linli, the protagonist of the book New Skin , this is her reality: her mom Fanny has gone...

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