Pretty is Author:Maggie Mitchell When precocious Lois and pretty Carly May were twelve years old, they were kidnapped, driven across the country, and held in a cabin in the woods for two months by a charismatic stranger. Now, Lois Lonsdale is teaching British literature at a small college in upstate New York. Out in Los Angeles, Chloe Savage (formerly Carly May) is a lonely act... more »ress, drinking too much and struggling to revive her career. When a movie script with a shockingly familiar plot comes into their lives, the women must grapple with unresolved losses and gains that have lain hidden for years behind the public's feverish presumptions.« less