Lanie Coatesβs life is spinning out of control. Sheβs piled everything she owns into a U-Haul and driven with her husband, Peter, and their three little boys from their cozy Texas home to a multiflight walkup in the Northeast. Sheβs left behind family, friends, and a comfortable lifeβall so her husband can realize his dream of becoming a professional musician. But somewhere in the eye of her personal hurricane, it hits Lanie that she once had dreams too. If only she could remember what they were.
These days, Lanie always seems to rank herself dead lastβ and when another mom accidentally criticizes her appearance, itβs the final straw. Fifteen years, three babies, and more pounds than sheβs willing to count since the day she said βI do,β Lanie longs desperately to feel like her old self again. Itβs time to rise up, fish her moxie out of the diaper pail, and find the woman she was before motherhood capsized her entire existence.
Lanie sets change in motionβjoining a gym, signing up for photography classes, and finding a new best friend. But she also creates waves that come to threaten her whole life. In the end, Lanie must figure out once and for all how to find herself without losing everything else in the process.
Katherine Centerβs Everyone Is Beautiful is a hugely entertaining, poignant, and charming new novel about what happens after happily ever after: how a woman learns to fall in love with her husbandβand her entire lifeβall over again.
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