Lanie Coates’s life is spinning out of control. She’s 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. She’s
left behind family, friends, and a comfortable life–all 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 last–
and when another mom accidentally criticizes her
appearance, it’s the final straw. Fifteen years, three
babies, and more pounds than she’s willing to count since
the day she said “I do,” Lanie longs desperately to feel
like her old self again. It’s 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 motion–joining 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 Center’s 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 husband–and her entire life–all over
again.
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