But for everything that's changed, some things remain the same. Stevie's shyness refuses to melt away. She still can't look her neighbors' gorgeous great-nephew in the eye. The Portland law office where she works remains utterly dysfunctional, as does her family—the aunt, uncle, and cousins who took her in when she was a child. To top it off, her once supportive best friend clearly resents her weight loss.
By far the biggest challenge in Stevie's new life lies in figuring out how to define her new self. Collaborating with her cousins to plan her aunt and uncle's problematic fortieth anniversary party, Stevie starts to find some surprising answers—about who she is, who she wants to be, and how the old Stevie evolved in the first place. And with each revelation, she realizes the most important part of her transformation may not be what she's lost, but the courage and confidence she's gathering, day by day.
This book was about so much more than Stevie's weight loss. It is about what may have contributed to this need since childhood. The difficulties of facing our pasts and moving beyond it towards healing. At times heartbreaking as it deals with some serious life issues, but funny as well with wonderful characters and a few that you will love to hate. I was glued to the pages of this chunkster for two days.Author: Cathy Lamb
Published: August 2010
Pages: 467Genre: Fiction/women's
Source: Library
Finished: 3-11-11
4 Bears
8 comments:
Nice review Nise, I have wanted to read this one for awhile, haven't got to it yet. Haven't found the perfect mood.
I loved this novel Nise; glad you did as well.
Hello. Thank you for visiting Starting the Next Chapter. I'm going to be starting Wicked Lovely tonight after I post my latest review. I'm very excited to start. Your review of Such a Pretty Face has caught my interest. I usually don't read this type of book, but the premise of this one sounds very interesting. I may have to see if the library has it. I hope you have a wonderful week. Happy reading!
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I've got this one too, so I didn't REALLY read your review for fear of a spoiler. Thanks for stopping by, Aushwitz was and unusual experience, at the time of our visit it was a museum of sorts, there happened to be a German group of students there also, and they outwardly were saying this was a hoax. Can you imagine. Of course I was with my mom, a survivor. Berkenau was far more "left" in its original state of "left as the Nazi's left it" You must remember when I was there it was still a Communist country and there just wasn't the money to preserve these places so it was just volunteer farmers who would come and cut the grass and such, I must say though there was also no vandalism. I really was sick for a couple of days after that trip. My dad was a POW in Majdanek for a short time, he and my uncle, his brother, escaped. But, it was unusual. for sure.
I so want to read this one and find out about Stevie's past..sounds great!
This one sounds really interesting. People always imagine that becoming thin will eliminate all their issues. It never does.
Great review, I haven't heard of this book before but will be adding it to my list.
This is a new one to me. Looks great.
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