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Virginia Ngatea Seton leaves New Orleans, where she works as a researcher for a historical novelist, and results home to Auckland for the wedding of her young sister. Drawn back to the world of her Pakeha-Maori family, Virginia rediscovers many family reports and legends. She discovers how the city of her youth has inextricably improved, as surely as the united states of her grandparents is fully gone forever. At becomes haunting, moving and comic, Queen of Beauty spans three decades. Moving between modern-day New Orleans and Auckland, as well as New Zealand of the 1920s and 1960s, it explores the fragility of real truth, the elusiveness of the past and the burden it places on the living.
