Help! I Can’t Remember The Title Of This Book About A Man With Acne Vulgaris And His Overweight Love…?
I remember what it was about, I just don’t remember the title or the author and it’s been driving me crazy.
The book was about this man with acne vulgaris who has been in love with his partner since they were 13. She’s overweight and has gone to some sort of fitness thing and refuses to talk to him, but sends him letters frequently. This has been going on for six months when the book begins. The book goes on to tell of them both being molested by their priest when they were younger (or something like that?) which is the root to her eating and him having so much stress which caused the acne. The book talks about a year during their teens where the girl went to live somewhere else and it’s revealed that she had been pregnant and had a baby. The plot is kind of fuzzy to me, but I remember it being a pretty good book.
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“The Flawless Skin of Ugly People” by Doug Crandellhttp://www.amazon.com/Flawless-Skin-Ugly…
“Hobbie, the narrator of this endearing debut novel, prefers the company of his beloved mutt, Terry, to the companionship of most humans. Hobbie, who has a blistering case of chronic acne, and Kari, his obese girlfriend of 20 years, continually aggravate their situations: Hobbie picks at and further inflames his bad skin while Kari eats in response to a shared tragedy from their youth. When the novel opens, Kari’s ensconced at a weight-loss clinic hundreds of miles from their temporary north Georgia home, and Hobbie lives like a hermit until he’s attacked by a bear. While recovering, he’s sucked into the messy world of Kari’s father, Roth, and slowly, clumsily becomes part of Roth’s family once Kari goes missing from the clinic. Crandell has an exquisite eye for small details—Kari’s letters home are written on lined paper, the same kind we wrote love notes on—that lend a tender feel to what could easily be overwrought.”