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.
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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 wonβt?
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, sheβs become an expert in loneliness, heartache, and neglect. Her whole life sheβs been cursed, used, and left behind. Swallowed a thousand tears and ignored a thousand deliberate cruelties. Sayreβs 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 motherβs 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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