Growing Up Beautiful: A Novel About Three Models in Milan

In the summer of 1986, three young American models are chosen to join a modeling agency in Europe's fashion capital of Milan. United as roommates by chance, Star, Joanne and Casey soon find their dreamed-of careers as models taking paths as different as their personalities. Star, who leaves behind a waitress job along with a handful of crumpled up dollar tips, sees her beauty as a way to move to the top of Milan's social strata. Joanne, raised in a privileged lifestyle, is expected to continue an Ivy League education, which doesn't interest her as much as a young photographer she meets on a casting. Casey is a naive seventeen year old who is ready for adventure, even the dangerous kind. Together, these three learn the funny, unexpected and sometimes ugly truth about growing up beautiful.