Sayre Bellavia has struggled her entire life with the
knowledge that she was unwanted. But even with this
information always buzzing in her subconscious, when she
learns that her mother has been admitted to the hospital
once again, Sayre trudges miles in the ice and snow to
visit her.
In an attempt to avoid being hit on the snow-covered road,
Sayre actually causes an accident and must try to save the
severely injured driver. It is during the hours of waiting
for help to arrive that Sayre begins to tell the story of
all of the suffering she has endured growing up with an
addict for a mother and how she is desperate to break away
from a past that has had a strangling grip on her entire
life.
In ORDINARY BEAUTY, a beautiful and heart-wrenching coming-
of-age novel, author Laura Weiss taps into the fragile
psyche of a teenage girl who desperately seeks to find a
bit of hope and love in her life. It is heartbreaking to
think that there are teens out there going through exactly
what Weiss has portrayed in this book, but thanks to her
skilled storytelling, attention can be shone on just how
hard it can be to grown up these days for some. Using a
classic example of the struggles of the mother/daughter
relationship, Weiss delivers a story that is exquisitely
written and is guaranteed to touch the hearts of all who
read it.
>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 won’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, she’s become an expert in
loneliness, heartache, and neglect. Her whole life she’s
been cursed, used, and left behind. Swallowed a thousand
tears and ignored a thousand deliberate cruelties. Sayre’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 mother’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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