num_pages: 240
description: Lanie Coatess life is spinning out of control. Shes 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. Shes left behind family friends and a comfortable lifeall 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 lastand when another mom accidentally criticizes her appearance its the final straw. Fifteen years three babies and more pounds than shes willing to count since the day she said I do Lanie longs desperately to feel like her old self again. Its 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 motionjoining 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 Centers 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 husbandand her entire lifeall over again.
language: English
title: Everyone is Beautiful
publisher: Ballantine Books