Beauty’s Beast: Toxic-Wellness Fiction

A novel that’ll have you looking at your favorite tub of moisturizer sideways, youthjuice is the story of a woman’s search for meaning, beauty and fulfillment at a luxury skincare company. Sinister and seductive, this is a searing beauty industry satire. 

California sunshine contrasts with a gothic mansion in this wildly subversive novel from the author of cult-classic Bunny. Rouge exposes the darkness beneath the glossy surface, and is sure to appeal to fans of Melissa Broder, Ottessa Moshfegh and Carmen Maria Machado.

A musician’s life takes a sharp, devastating turn that leads her to a sales representative job at a luxury beauty and wellness store. Enter the world of creams, lotions, potions and more in Natural Beauty, a story that examines the dark underbelly of what it means to be beautiful and the steep price of aesthetics. 

Pristine on the surface with a slow-rot seeping within, Self Care is a novel about the farce of perfectionism online and in person. Richual is a feminist-first company with a sexual predator on its board;, a woman-led community built on toxicity and violence. You’ll never look at #BeautyTok pages the same again.  

Rather than examining the consequences of a toxic wellness brand, The Glow takes readers behind the scenes of creating one. A story about a woman’s desperate grasp at stability through creating a wellness empire from the ground up asks questions about the ethics of consumerism and the dangers of capitalism.  

A story from the perspective of self-help devotees, Wellness introduces us to a not-so-happily-married couple. Nathan Hill’s (The Nix) characters learn that the grass isn’t always greener next door in this tale of our all-consuming cultural obsessions and brutal anxieties.  

Find beauty without a filter in Aesthetica, a story of a thirty-something former influencer ridding herself of the beauty rituals and procedures she relied on as a teenager. A self-discovery journey that leads to dark truths and closet skeletons trying to break free, this is a sharp and brutal tale.