Maxine, as she herself puts it, is "one opinionated broad." Her
grown daughter, Dodie, an au natural social worker in a domestic
violence shelter, has plenty of opinions too-mostly polar opposites
to those of her mother, a proud member of the Society of Permanent
Cosmetic Professionals. After fleeing to the US from Capetown as a
teenager, Dodie had never expected the two would ever again live in
close proximity. Even as a grown woman, and professional caregiver,
she can't help resenting her mother's denial of everything about
herself: her physicality, her Judaism, her disregard for the South
African blacks-even her personhood in the way she allowed abuse by
her deadbeat husband, a man she literally barred from the house
when Dodie was a toddler. Dodie remains equally disgusted by her
mother's lingering relationship with mentor and former lover "Dr.
Ruf," a cultivator of beauty and world-renowned permanent makeup
guru. But when Maxine discovers that Dodie has hidden Shelley, a
victim of domestic violence, in her Annapolis skin care salon, they
find themselves using their respective skills to shelter Shelley
and disguise her from her abusive boyfriend. This new working
relationship unsettles them both, as well as their respective
livelihoods and outside relationships, and sparks a series of
events that culminate in Dodie's telling Maxine the truth about why
she left South Africa, a truth that will change their understanding
of themselves and their relationship forever. Told jointly by
Maxine and Dodie as they reconstruct their lives in an appeal to
Dodie's runaway teenage daughter, Permanent Makeup raises questions
about who we are, what we can make of ourselves, and whether, in
the end, we can escape our origins.
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