Doug Crandell
Thanks to Ugly Betty, America is finally ready to read a love story about a couple who isnâ€™t sleek, slick, tucked, pulled, or plastic., ,Do we have to be beautiful to be loved? Hobbieâ€”this novelâ€™s darkly romantic heroâ€”has been banished to homely man exile in the North Georgia Mountains, where his enemies are mirrors and bears. Things are not going well for Hobbie. His skin? Pizza Face, super-sized, with extra pepperoni and pitted olives. Job status? Former bank teller. Love life? His common-law wife Kari has gone AWOL at a weight-loss clinic in North Carolina., ,But just as it seems Hobbie is doomed to go through life as a sweet, self-pitying â€œanonymous joke,â€ he jumps out of his skin and becomes downright heroic., ,Can Hobbie rescue Kari from the weight-loss clinic? Can he pull his fractured family together? Plastic surgeryâ€”will he or wonâ€™t he? Will love endure if Hobbieâ€™s skin clears up, Kari drops pounds, and ugly people become flawless? Readers wonâ€™t be able to put the book down until they find out.
Fiction,Adult Fiction,Romance,Contemporary,Novels
The Flawless Skin of Ugly People