![]() ![]() "Will transport you to expat Paris." - Suzanne Rindell, author of The Other Typist Will Nora's reunion with Lee give them a chance to forgive past betrayals, and break years of silence?Ī novel of freedom and frailty, desire and daring, The Beautiful American portrays the extraordinary relationship between two passionate, unconventional woman.ĪMAZON | BARNES & NOBLE | BOOKS-A-MILLION | GOOGLE PLAY | IBOOKSTORE | INDIEBOUND | POWELL'S ![]() But Lee fails to realize that her friendship with Nora is even older, that it goes back to their days as children in Poughkeepsie, New York, when a devastating trauma marked Lee forever. Nora and Lee knew each other in the heady days of late 1920's Paris, when Nora was giddy with love for her childhood sweetheart, Lee became the celebrated mistress of the artist Man Ray, and Lee's magnetic beauty drew them all into the glamorous lives of famous artists and their wealthy patrons. Lee suffers from what she witnessed as a war correspondent photographing the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. Nora is racked with the fear that her efforts to survive under the Vichy regime may have cost her daughter's life. Neither has emerged from the war unscathed. ![]() There, she unexpectedly meets up with an old acquaintance, famous model-turned-photographer Lee Miller. 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. ![]()
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