Everyone is Beautiful, Katherine Center
Everyone is Beautiful, Katherine Center
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Everyone is Beautiful

Author: Katherine Center

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Unabridged: 7 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/03/2009


Synopsis

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 the Northeast. She’s left behind family, friends, and a comfortable life–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.

These days, Lanie always seems to rank herself dead last–and when another mom accidentally criticizes her appearance, 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. 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. In the end, Lanie must figure out once and for all how to find herself without losing everything else in the process.

About The Author

Katherine Center is the author of The Bright Side of Disaster. She graduated from Vassar College, where she won the Vassar College Fiction Prize, and received an MA in fiction from the University of Houston. She served as fiction co-editor for the literary magazine Gulf Coast, and her graduate thesis, Peepshow, a collection of stories, was a finalist for the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. A former freelance writer and teacher, she lives in Houston with her husband and two young children.www.katherinecenter.com


Reviews

Goodreads review by Suz

I am LOVING everything Katherine Center lately, especially on audio. These suit me on the audio format, as I can breeze right through. Unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy this narrator as much as previous, and I didn’t feel this title was as good as her others. This was a fun read, but I did feel there was......more

Goodreads review by Terrie

"Everyone is Beautiful" by Katherine Center is a fun read about a young family in the swirl of change! Lanie Coates has her hands full with three boys all under the age of five, two still in diapers and one of the three is a serial playground "biter"! Navigating a cramped apartment with three boys al......more

Goodreads review by Susanne

3 Stars. What do you do when the person you once were is lost to you? When your days consist of taking care of three young boys and looking after a husband who is living his dream, while you are not? Ask Lanie. After moving to Cambridge, MA from Houston, her life consists of diapers and bath time, pa......more

I was thrilled with this sweet book about the not so glamorous sides of motherhood, wifehood. Every young mom will benefit from its honest look at what life is really like. I loved that it didn't go where it could have predictably gone. I love that at the end the main character didn't attain a size......more

Katherine Center can do no wrong. Every single book I’ve read of hers speaks to my soul in a way no other books have. After reading all of her newer work, I decided this year I’m going to read her entire backlist starting with Everyone is Beautiful. I’ve read a few marriage in crisis themed books la......more