While Terra attempts to cover her birthmark, Jacob attempts to embrace what he could never hide: his heritage. Terra protects herself emotionally with art and physically with Erik Lois buries herself in the comfort of food.īut everything changes when she meets Jacob, a Goth teen accustomed to standing out. Terra and her mother live in constant fear of Grant’s mercurial moods and quiet, seething disdain, while Terra’s two older brothers have flown as far away from their disjointed family as they can. After some controversy, Grant Cooper’s lifelong obsession with maps has given way to a new subject of malevolence: his wife. That “secret,” most tender part of herself is exposed only around her mother Lois and Grant, her father. Her life has been defined by her birthmark, which she takes great pains to cover with makeup every morning. Sixteen-year-old Terra Cooper is an artist, student, daughter, girlfriend - and a young woman with a port-wine stain splashed across her cheek. It would be easy to call Justina Chen Headley’s North Of Beautiful a gorgeously written, moving young adult novel - and trust me, it absolutely is.
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