But as white-lead paint rots the flesh below it, the bustling city, and Santa Giuliana, is rotting below the shimmer of wealth and privilege. Flavia becomes her ornatrix: her hairdresser and personal maid. There she meets Ghostanza, a courtesan turned widow, whose white-lead painted face entrances Flavia, and whose beauty and cruelty are unmatched. But on the night before her younger sister's wedding, Flavia does something drastic, something that will draw her into a much wider and stranger world than she could have imagined: the convent of Santa Giuliana, just outside the city walls. Ashamed of the mark, her mother forces Flavia to conceal her face behind a veil. A dyer's daughter, she grows up in a secluded little house in the woods, away from prying eyes. Flavia was born with a birthmark marring her face in the shape of a bird in flight.
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