Let Me Look at You

<p>Michael J. Wilson's character-driven debut captures the loneliness of urban millennial life and the peril of becoming enamored with strangers solely through their social media personas.</p><p></p><p>Contessa became a fixture in my mind a year ago when I saw her board the train. So begins protagonist Adrian Bellinger's obsession-a chance encounter with a strange woman ignites a pursuit that exposes the numb intimacy of the digital age. Dissecting the culture of online behavior in the not-quite-here-and-now of Brooklyn New York <em>Let Me Look at You</em> is both a seductive whisper and a frustrated demand suggesting that the thresholds of pathological behavior have shifted as technology changes our daily habits and behaviors.</p><p></p><p>For fans of Teju Cole's <em>Open City</em> and Michel Houellebecq's <em>The Possibility of an Island</em> <em>Let Me Look at You</em> introduces a promising new voice in the literary landscape.</p>