In this spellbinding, brilliantly written novel of psychological suspense, a young woman's self-destructive double life is exposed - and acclaimed author Kathryn Harrison's remarkable talents as a novelist are confirmed.Ann Rogers appears to be an attractive, successful young woman. A talented photographer, she creates happy memories for others - videotaping weddings, splicing together scenes of smiling faces, editing out the awkward moments. But she cannot edit her own memories so easily - images of a childhood career as her father's model and muse, the subject of his celebrated series of controversial photographs. And so Ann escapes into a secret life: She hides in the bathroom, takes speed, and shoplifts.In razor-sharp prose - The New York Times described her writing as "hallucinatory, poetic" - Kathryn Harrison shows how patterns of exploitation in the past form a psychological trap for Ann, a trap that closes tighter and tighter, until it finally threatens to destroy her. When the Museum of Modern Art announces a retrospective of her father's disturbing portraits, Ann's carefully controlled balance on the edge of self-destruction slips.Like Thicker Than Water, Kathryn Harrison's previous novel, Exposure illuminates how a desperate struggle for identity, for self, and for self-respect can go under the surface of what seems like a successful life. And like Thicker Than Water, Exposure is sure to be praised as "beautifully written, unsparingly honest" (The New York Times Book Review) and "devastating...remarkable" (The New York Times). Read Less