The Other Side of Beautiful

Vivian McCinnick, a 1950's Missouri housewife, used her looks to escape her brutal upbringing and thinks she's accepted her quiet domestic role and disappointingly plain daughter. She's comfortably detached from her marriage and child, until her husband's follies require a closer examination of herself and her family. Vivian begins a journey that will eternally alter herself and her daughter. In The Other Side of Beautiful, the lure and complexities of physical beauty are explored, but more evident are the exquisite strains of everyday relationships--the few breaths between love and hate, muddied motives in families, the lovely and ugly sides of parenting. The layers of each character messily peel away as they confront the complicated undertones of every relationship. The Dogwood Grove residents are thoroughly human, faulted, real...and just a hair crazy.