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Name of Book: The Beautiful American Author: Jeanne Mackin ISBN: 978-0-451-46582-5 Publisher: NAL Trade Type of book: 1900s-1950s, 1920s, France, New York, rape, mother/daughter relationships, perfume, love, jealousy, possessiveness, muse, art, surrealism, Lee Miller, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso Year it was published: 2014 Summary: From Paris in the 1920s to London after the Blitz, two women find that a secret from their past reverberates through years of joy and sorrow.... As recovery from World War II begins, expat American Nora Tours travels from her home in southern France to London in search of her missing sixteen-year-old daughter. There, she unexpectedly meets up with an old acquaintance, famous model-turned-photographer Lee Miller. Neither has emerged from the war unscathed. Nora is racked with the fear that her efforts to survive under the Vichy regime may have cost her daughter’s life. Lee suffers from what she witnessed as a war correspondent photog...