A Visit From the Goon Squad - Pg 323

For as long as he'd known her, his wife had offset her sexy beauty with a pair of dorky glasses, sometimes leaning toward Dick Smart other times Catwoman. Alex had loved the glasses for their inability to suppress Rebecca's sexy beauty, but lately he wasn't so sure; the glasses, along with Rebecca's prematurely graying hair and the fact that she was often short on sleep, threatened to reify her disguise into an identity: a fragile, harried academic slaving to finish a book while teaching two courses and chairing several committees.