“It is not very often in life that I pick up a book, a piece of fiction mind you, and find that the story it tells is mine. It is even rarer that I pick up a book and am drawn in from the first page, finding not only my heart but also my head engrossed; literally cheering out loud for someone I think just might be me. Without giving away the details of this finely crafted tale, I find it difficult to put into words just how profoundly this book reached into my history, into my experiences, into me and gave words and reflections and new meanings to me. The book has been highly publicized for its look at early motherhood and its truly ugly and exhausting side, but I challenge any person, woman or man, mother or father, wife or husband, who has been in a successful long-term, committed relationship to not see themselves in Lanie Coates. She is everyone, and she proves that Everyone is Beautiful. Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center has become one of those rare, cherished, books for me; it is, simply, a gem.” – Cursing Mama