Pretty Things - Virginie Despentes
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Claudine has always been pretty and Pauline has always been ugly. But whenClaudine wants to become famous, she enlists gloomy Pauline—withher angelicvoice—intopretending they’re the same person. Yet just as things take off,Claudine commits suicide. Pauline hatches a new scheme, pulling on her deadsister’s identity, inhabiting her apartment, and reading her mail. As the impersonationcontinues, Pauline slowly realizes that the cost of femininity is to dazzle onthe outside while rotting away on the inside—andthat womanhood is what ultimatelykilled her sister.