Flash! Birth and Death of a Model
6 parts Complete Flash is the story of a Ukrainian schoolgirl who becomes a professional model in Paris and loses and finds herself in the high-stakes world of fashion, with the ever-pending threat of deportation. The book opens up with a teenage narrator in an isolated town of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. She feels trapped in a broken, corrupt society with no chance to escape, but to dream. Unable to fit into her new high school, she fantasizes about a Western life, the kind she witnessed many times on television. She would do anything to escape to the West. But escaping into the fashion world means rejecting her own principles and values and complicates her search for an identity. Before she can thrive in a different world she has to lose herself in lies and pretense.