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Skin may be the body’s largest organ, but it takes on epic proportions in Lynne Tillman’s latest novel, American Genius: A Comedy, a dazzling and often dizzying meditation on memory and meaningful connection. Lingering in a facility never clearly defined (it emerges as something between a New Age spa and a mental health hospital), the main character, whose name we eventually learn is Helen, obsesses over every aspect of her problematic epidermis: psoriasis, moisturizers, alopecia, waxing, scars, vermiculations, facials, the way this or that cloth feels against her sensitive skin... Click here to continue reading. Originally published January 2007, VenusZine |
