Publisher's Synopsis
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Emigrating to America, beautiful Perlita is blessed with a handsome husband, a healthy baby and an exciting new life. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, she is branded an enemy alien and her family are placed in an internment camp. As death and loss crush her spirit she struggles to find any beauty in her life. In Italy, Pia is the scarred and damaged sister who will never amount to anything. Attacked as a child she has lived her life as an outsider and, when she causes the death of her brother-in-law, she flees to a nunnery. Finally finding inner peace she becomes instrumental in protecting those threatened with persecution under Mussolini. But when she comes face to face with her attacker her anger threatens to expose them all. Neither sister will remain unchanged. War has more than one way of claiming its victims.
