Pretty is as pretty does
By: by Alison Clement.
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Beauty contests -- Fiction.; Farmers' spouses -- Fiction.; Young women -- Fiction.; Illinois -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In Palmyra, things only come in a couple colors. You got your brown and blue and green. You can hardly even get red which is a main color, because it's too excitable for Palmyra. My favorite color is orange but not like a pumpkin. You can find Halloween orange in Palmyra but you can't find the orange I like, so what you do in Palmyra is you make a compromise. You take brown, instead of orange. You buy blue instead of teal. You take green and not turquoise.

You take something else, instead of what you want." "I find a spool of dark brown thread and I'm so relieved to have made a decision that, for a second, I forget about holding myself in and, in that second, my eyes fly up, all on their own, and land right at the back of Bill Lee's head. He's down at the end of the aisle. He feels me looking and swings around and as far as he can tell I've been staring at him the whole time, which, like I explained, I haven't."--BOOK JACKET.