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About What Pretty Gets You
Product Description 19-year-old Maia works a kiosk at Philadelphia International Airport, waiting to be discovered and watching people’s lives take off while hers stays stagnant. When a handsome commuter charms her with stories of the perfect life in the snow-capped mountains of Colorado, she rashly follows him into a future she was not expecting. Desperate to regain control of her life and sentenced to bedrest in her second pregnancy, Carolyn makes the dangerous decision to hire the young woman she suspects is sleeping with her husband to be their nanny. Friends close; beautiful enemies closer, she reasons.Carolyn and Maia harbor secret pasts. What unfolds in Boulder over the summer exposes the gritty underbelly of their dreams and forces both women to question the bounds of loyalty, the complicated nature of female friendship, and the privilege and peril of physical beauty. “Get comfortable. Hoffman’s masterfully plotted tale of betrayal, secret-keeping, and unlikely sisterhood will keep you glued to your seat, turning pages well into the night.” – Abbey Lee Nash, author of Lifeline “Gripping. . . . A heartfelt story well told.” – Kirkus Reviews Review "A page-turner that rings true.... [Hoffman] will appeal to fans of Jodi Picoult, Sue Miller, and Chris Bohjalian." -Library Journal "Hoffman's masterfully plotted tale of betrayal, secret-keeping, and unlikely sisterhood will keep you glued to your seat, turning pages well into the night." - Abbey Lee Nash, author of Lifeline "A riveting and unexpected story of female friendship that will defy your expectations as it keeps you turning pages far into the night. Backdropped by the splendor of the Rocky Mountain West, What Pretty Gets You plunges the reader into a radically messy moral universe, where beauty is the opposite of truth, lies are a necessary kindness, and relationships are not what they seem. Through a nuanced portrayal of two very different women--a suburban stay-at-home mom and the gorgeous young drifter who upends her life--Hoffman deftly guides the reader toward uncomfortable--and ultimately revelatory--notions of physical beauty, entitlement, and feminine power. Readers will be hard-pressed not to catch glimpses of themselves in Maia and Carolyn--or to resist falling in love with them both." - Caeli Wolfson Widger, author of Real Happy Family "I find her writing to be fresh and emotional, demonstrating perfectly what Ernest Hemingway exclaimed, "In order to write about life, first you must live it." Chandra Hoffman has lived it." -New York Journal of Books
