The Most Normal Woman: Essays on Appearances

In this dynamic new collection of essays, Kiberd (non-fiction editor at the Stinging Fly) interrogates our endless pursuit of perfection with wit and honesty. Moving between memoir, cultural criticism and reportage, she examines beauty, identity and self-invention through everything from Botox to drag culture, to dissect the business of attaining perfection – or even normality– through consumption and body modification.