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Delta, the protagonist and narrator of this novel, is a professional photographer, VERY good at her craft.
Specializing in children’s birthday parties, Delta knows all the regular tricks. She takes pictures posed and unposed. She understands lighting and angles. Dawn can “disappear into the woodwork” and take candid photos, but she prefers to “create” the moment. She sees herself, she tells us, as a “director.” Delta can bring vitality into a gathering using various tricks, like balloon animals.
And if the children in the photos still don’t look happy enough or pretty enough, there is Photoshop, where the children will get unblemished skin and wonderful smiles. She can not only remove the red dots; she can make the child’s eyes blue.
If Delta Dawn, an elite New York society photographer, doesn’t see beauty, she creates it, as well as her own version of reality. A wiz with photo editing tools, she