Molly Notkin spills everything (p. 792)
Apparently issues were complicated by the fact that Madame Psychosis emerged from puberty as an almost freakishly beautiful young woman, especially in a part of the United States where poor nutrition and indifference to dentition and hygiene made physical beauty an extremely rare and sort of discomfiting condition […]
Context
Deformity's inversion, mid-deposition: Joelle's beauty rendered in the vocabulary of abnormality — "freakishly," "rare and sort of discomfiting." In her home country perfect beauty is itself the improbable deformation, the hinge the whole lethal-perfection counter-theory of the veil turns on: either way, the face is unbearable and gets covered.