Natural Beauty: A Novel Binding:Paperback Freda Epum explores the opposing

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and their fake wedding might just derail their relationship before it even starts

Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers

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Natural Beauty: A Novel Binding:Paperback Freda Epum explores the opposingWinner of the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction Longlisted for the PEN Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Sly, surprising, and razor sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parents also talented musicians who fled China in the wake of