The sky seemed calmer and I could see light shining through with a surreptitious smile. My reflection stared up at me from the puddle around my ankles. My face looked pale. I thought of Holly Golightly, standing in the rain, her face crushed with tears. Didn't I look like her, just a little? I lifted my feet and walked. Written by an author with an impossible last name, In Beautiful Disguises is a novel about a 16-year-old girl, living in a small town in South India. Life isn't exactly easy for the un-named girl, who has a silent mother who carries a shadow of disappointment wherever she went ; a drunken, abusive father; a dutiful sister who has been forced to marry an older man; and a brother who is addicted to satellite TV. The situation is made more difficult by the fact that the main character/narrator has some big dreams of her own: she wants to become a movie star, a Bollywood actress, someone with a life like Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's . When t...