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Ordinary Beauty by Laura Wiess

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ORDINARY BEAUTY
By: Laura Wiess

Mtv
June 2011
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Featuring: Sayre Bellavia
277 pages
ISBN: 1439193967
EAN: 9781439193969
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Young Adult Contemporary

>Lauded by critics and authors for her heartbreakingly real heroines, Laura Wiess brings readers another devastating tale of betrayal and redemption rich with the raw emotion that made Such a Pretty Girl a classic.

How can you make someone love you when they wonโ€™t?

And what if that person happens to be your mother?

Sayre Bellavia grew up knowing she was a mistake: unplanned and unwanted. At five months shy of eighteen, sheโ€™s become an expert in loneliness, heartache, and neglect. Her whole life sheโ€™s been cursed, used, and left behind. Swallowed a thousand tears and ignored a thousand deliberate cruelties. Sayreโ€™s stuck by her mother through hell, tried to help her, be near her, be important to her even as her mother slipped away into a violent haze of addiction, destroying the only chance Sayre ever had for a real family.

Now her mother is lying in a hospital bed, near death, ravaged by her own destructive behavior. And as Sayre fights her way to her motherโ€™s bedside, she is terrified but determined to get the answer to a question no one should ever have to ask: Did my mother ever really love me? And what will Sayre do if the answer is yes?

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