I stared across the booth at my mom with a blank expression on my face and told her what I felt she needed to hear, what I’d never heard her husband say. “You look pretty.” And she did—prettier than I’d seen her look in a long time. She looked like she’d lost a few pounds. Either that or bought a better girdle. And I had an instant vision of my mom losing half her size, like the people on The Biggest Loser. We were at Red Barrel, celebrating their three-year wedding anniversary on Halloween with a bunch of people dressed up in costumes. Who gets married on Halloween? Better question: Why did they get married at all?
 
Nothing changes if nothing changes

Thirty-one-year-old Nevada Pearson is suffocating in a loveless marriage and mourning the loss of the life she always wanted. The work-from-home mom has gained over a hundred pounds since saying “I do,” three years earlier, to her daughter’s father and is now convinced he’s cheating. On impulse, she participates in a twelve-week clinical trial for a diet pill and loses half her size. When changes at her job force her back into the call center, a place she dreads, she decides to make the best of it, which leads to an affair with her new boss—a sexy, older man with nontraditional beliefs. Nevada has always been the faithful type who would never ever cheat on her husband.

Nicole, Nevada’s troubled teenage daughter has three vices: profanity, junk food, and something she’s too embarrassed to mention. The fifteen-year-old uses the Internet to diagnose her mental problems and is convinced she has social anxiety. On top of that, she hates school and her mother’s husband. And if it were not for a certain NBA All-Star point guard and his team in green, she would feel hopeless. At school, she eats lunch in the bathroom. At home, she cries about the bullies who ruined her school day. There’s a change to her agenda when one of the finest boys at school—someone with problems of his own—takes an interest in her. Now, even though she’s fat and, by her measurements, somewhere between average and butt-ugly, she has a boyfriend, finally.

A deeply moving and unforgettable journey of transformation told through the voices of Nevada and Nicole. The fragile yet comical mother-daughter duo may be down, but they refuse to count themselves out.

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