Everyone Is Beautiful
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
A hugely entertaining, poignant, and charming novel about what happens after happily ever after from the New York Timesbestselling author of How to Walk Away and Things You Save in a Fire
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A hugely entertaining, poignant, and charming novel about what happens after happily ever after from the New York Timesbestselling author of How to Walk Away and Things You Save in a FireEveryone Is Beautiful is for every woman who has ever struggled to find, hold on to, and nurture authenticity in the midst of that wild, messy, wonderful thing called motherhood. Brené Brown
Lanie Coates s life is spinning out of control. She s 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 Boston. She s left behind family and friends all 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 prioritize herself last and when another mom accidentally assumes she s pregnant, it s the final straw. Fifteen years, three babies, and more pounds than she s willing to count since the day she said I do, Lanie longs desperately to feel like her old self again. It s time to rise up, fish her moxie out of the diaper pail, and find the woman she was before motherhood consumed her entire existence.
Lanie sets change in motion joining 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. Balancing motherhood and me-time, marriage and independence, and supporting loved ones while also realizing her own dreams, Lanie must figure out once and for all how to find herself without losing everything else in the process.
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The day I decided to change my life, I was wearing sweatpants and an old oxford of Peter s with a coffee stain down the front. I hadn t showered because the whole family had slept in one motel room the night before, and it was all we could do to get back on the road without someone dropping the remote in the toilet or pooping on the floor.We had just driven across the country to start Peter s new job. Houston,
Texas, to Cambridge, Massachusetts. I d had the kids in our tenyear-
old Subaru the whole drive, two car seats and a booster across the
back. Alexander kept taking Toby s string cheese, and the baby, except
when he was sleeping, was fussing. Peter drove the U-Haul on the theory
that if it broke, he d know how to fix it.
On the road, I was sure I had the short end of the stick, especially
during the dog hours of Tennessee. But now Peter was hauling all our
belongings up three flights of narrow stairs, and I was at the park, on a
blanket in the late-afternoon shade, breast-feeding Baby Sam. Peter had
to be hurting. Even with our new landlord helping him, it was taking all
day. And I was just waiting for him to call on the cell phone when he was
ready for us to come home. Or as close to home as a curtainless apartment
stacked high with boxes could be.
We d been at the park since midmorning, and we were running low on snacks. Alexander and Toby were galloping at top speed, as they always did. I m not even sure they realized they were in a new park. They acted like we might as well have been at home, in Houston, the only place they d ever lived. They acted like the last five days of driving hadn t even registered. I, in contrast, was aching with loss.
I didn t like this park. Too clean, too brand-new, too perfect. The
parks at home had character monkey bars fashioned like cowboys,
gnarled crape myrtle trunks for climbing, discarded Big Wheels with no
seats. And we d known them backward and forward every tree knot,
every mud hole, every
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kid.
This park, today, felt forced. It was trying too hard.
I surveyed the moms. Not one of them, I decided, was a person I
wanted to meet. And just as I was disliking them all and even starting to
pity them for having no idea what they were missing, park-wise, Toby
my middle boy, my sandy-haired, blue-eyed, two-year-old flirt watched
a younger kid make a move for the truck in his hand, and then, unbelievably, grabbed that kid s forearm and bit it.
The little boy screamed as Toby pulled the truck to his chest. My
truck! Toby shouted. (He always pronounced truck like fuck, but
that was, perhaps, another issue.)
And then, of course, all hell broke loose.
I jumped up, startling the baby out of a nap and off my boob. I ran
across the park, wailing baby on my shoulder, shirt unbuttoned, shouting,
Toby! No! Toby saw my horrified face and instantly started to
cry himself though he was no match for the little kid he d bitten, who
was now screaming like he was on fire. His mother, too, had sprinted
from her perch, dropping her purse on the way, and was now holding
him as if he d been shot. Is it bleeding? she kept asking the boy. Is it
bleeding?
It was clearly not bleeding. Isn t that the number one rule of parenting?
Don t Make Things Worse?
All the other parents, meanwhile, had gathered around us to see what
the heck was going on. My shirt was hanging open, the baby was still
shrieking, and I remembered from one of those parenting books I used to
read back when I used to do that type of thing that when a child bites,
the parent of the biter must give attention to the bitee. I turned toward the
This park, today, felt forced. It was trying too hard.
I surveyed the moms. Not one of them, I decided, was a person I
wanted to meet. And just as I was disliking them all and even starting to
pity them for having no idea what they were missing, park-wise, Toby
my middle boy, my sandy-haired, blue-eyed, two-year-old flirt watched
a younger kid make a move for the truck in his hand, and then, unbelievably, grabbed that kid s forearm and bit it.
The little boy screamed as Toby pulled the truck to his chest. My
truck! Toby shouted. (He always pronounced truck like fuck, but
that was, perhaps, another issue.)
And then, of course, all hell broke loose.
I jumped up, startling the baby out of a nap and off my boob. I ran
across the park, wailing baby on my shoulder, shirt unbuttoned, shouting,
Toby! No! Toby saw my horrified face and instantly started to
cry himself though he was no match for the little kid he d bitten, who
was now screaming like he was on fire. His mother, too, had sprinted
from her perch, dropping her purse on the way, and was now holding
him as if he d been shot. Is it bleeding? she kept asking the boy. Is it
bleeding?
It was clearly not bleeding. Isn t that the number one rule of parenting?
Don t Make Things Worse?
All the other parents, meanwhile, had gathered around us to see what
the heck was going on. My shirt was hanging open, the baby was still
shrieking, and I remembered from one of those parenting books I used to
read back when I used to do that type of thing that when a child bites,
the parent of the biter must give attention to the bitee. I turned toward the
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Autoren-Porträt von Katherine Center
Katherine Center is the New York Times bestselling author of What You Wish For, Happiness for Beginners, The Lost Husband (now a movie), and five other bittersweet comic novels about how life knocks us down and how we get back up. BookPage calls her the reigning queen of comfort reads. She lives in her hometown of Houston with her husband and two kids.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Katherine Center
- 2021, 272 Seiten, Maße: 13,2 x 20 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Ballantine Books
- ISBN-10: 034549797X
- ISBN-13: 9780345497970
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.07.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
What a clear-eyed rendering of the grimy, exhausting, beautiful mess that is early motherhood! I laughed, winced in recognition, and cheered wholeheartedly (sometimes out loud) for Lanie as she struggles to learn how to love everyone enough and still give part of herself to herself. Marisa de los Santos, author of Belong to MeIf you like novels with happy endings that will remind you of childhood fairy tales, then Katherine Center s Everyone Is Beautiful is the perfect book . . . Bound to catch the sympathetic attention of women looking for stories of self-improvement on physical and emotional levels. This is a breezy read that glows, in part, because its characters bask in the sunny side of life. USA Today
Endearing . . . unpretentious, silly, and honest. People
Katherine Center has written a novel that will strike a chord in the heart of any woman who has ever tried to raise small children . . . Center has a deft and humorous touch . . . Everyone Is Beautiful will make you laugh out loud, even as you wince in recognition. Free Lance Star
Part mommy lit, part chick lit and part red hot romance. Readers, especially new moms, will identify with the main character s struggle to balance parental responsibility with adult needs and desires. The Examiner, Houston
Lighthearted . . . In less deft hands, the horrors of the out-of-control Coates toddlers would resemble bad reality television, but Center s breezy style invites the reader to commiserate, laughing all the way, with Lanie s plight. Avoids the obvious cliches, while harkening pleasantly back to 50s-era motherhood humor classics like Jean Kerr s Please Don t Eat the Daisies. Kirkus Reviews
Center takes a woman at her most vulnerable time and sets her on a journey to find herself without losing what she holds most dear in a superbly written novel filled with unique and resonant characters. Booklist
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mom-lit . . . sparkling. Publishers Weekly
Everyone Is Beautiful is a loving and hilarious portrayal of motherhood and marriage. Katherine Center has a keen eye and a fresh take on the joys and pain of a new mother trying to do everything right, and to be everything to everybody. You will laugh and relate, weep and rejoice on Lanie's journey of self discovery. I highly recommend the trip! Adriana Trigiani, author of Very Valentine
Everyone Is Beautiful is a loving and hilarious portrayal of motherhood and marriage. Katherine Center has a keen eye and a fresh take on the joys and pain of a new mother trying to do everything right, and to be everything to everybody. You will laugh and relate, weep and rejoice on Lanie's journey of self discovery. I highly recommend the trip! Adriana Trigiani, author of Very Valentine
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