num_pages: 276
description: Blubber meets Steel Magnolias in this funny and honest story about body image and family. Rosemary Goode is smart and funny and loyal and the best eyebrow waxer in Spring Hill Tennessee. But only one thing seems to matter to anyone including Rosemary: her weight. And when your mom runs the most successful (and gossipy) beauty shop in town it can be hard to keep a low profile. Rosemary resolves to lose the weight but her journey turns out to be about everything but the scale. Her life-changing waist-shrinking year is captured with brutal honesty and humor topped with an extralarge helping of Southern charm. A truly uncommon novel about an increasingly common problem.
language: English
title: Artichoke's Heart
publisher: Dutton Juvenile