Civic Beauties

First edition (publ. Aivia Press)

Civic Beauties is a 1999 novel by American author C. D. Payne. It is a political and social satire, following the lives of two fifteen-year-old twin sisters, Carissa and Toni, whose father is a Republican Senator from Ohio running for Vice President. It is written as a 'musical,' with characters breaking out into 'song' at random times throughout the novel.