Under the Skin

By: Michel Faber

isserley picks up hitchhikers with big muscles. she, herself, is tiny—like a kid peering up over the steering wheel. she has a remarkable face and wears the thickest corrective lenses anyone has ever seen. her posture is suggestive of some spinal problem. her breasts are perfect; perhaps implants. she is strangely erotic yet somehow grotesque, vulnerable yet threatening. her hitchhikers are a...