"Readers will be eager for more." --Booklist
"An insightful and empathetic view into the daily struggles of living
with obesity. A solid entry for titles with plus-sized heroines."
--Library Journal
Pearl and Ruby's choices drove them apart.
Finding their way back to each other might be the only way forward.
The weight of their family secrets could not have shaped Pearl and Ruby
Crenshaw any differently. Ruby's a runner, living in Dallas and only
reluctantly talking to their mother, Birdie, when she calls from prison.
Pearl is still living in her mother's fixer-upper and finds herself
facing a line in the sand: her weight is threatening to kill her. She's
hundreds of pounds beyond the point where she can celebrate her curves
or benefit from the body positivity movement, and unless she takes
drastic action, the future looks dire.
But when Ruby's buried rage explodes in a hilariously viral way, the
mistake has life-altering consequences. Now the sisters are back living
under the same roof and forced to put the pieces of their separate lives
together again. Funny, cinematic, and bursting with heart, this is a
story of hope and redemption that celebrates the unbreakable bonds of
sisterhood.
"A moving story of sisters and their unbreakable bond that spans a
lifetime. Both hilarious and heartfelt, Baldwin brings to life
characters that not only amuse us but stay with us long after the story
is told. With this delightful and meaningful debut, Wendy Willis Baldwin
is definitely an author to watch." --Angela Pisel, author of With Love
from the Inside
