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Claudia had the misfortune to be born with an ugly face. Growing up in a modest, loving Vermont family, she painfully learned to compensate for her looks in other waysways that led to a good marriage to Dan, a young man from a well-off New York City family. Appalled by their new daughter-in-laws appearance, Dans parents encourage plastic surgery, and suddenly, amazingly, at age thirty, Claudia experiences life for the first time as an attractive woman. Claudia barely has time to accustom herself to her newly sculpted features when Dans work transfers the couple to a small town in the South. There, she begins to feel an affinity not just to the lush, hot landscape but also to the black people who live, as she once did, at the margins of the affluent white society she and Dan are welcomed into. Claudias lifelong wish for prettiness has come dazzlingly true, but behind her remade face, she struggles to believe in it. Increasingly isolated from Dan, who is relishing their new life and friends, Claudia finds herself rebelling against the subtle, pervasive racism that imbues Southern life and, in search of an honest, true connection, unconsciously drawn to the black man who does their ya

Author

MacLeod, Sally

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375506130

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities