Artichoke's Heart

Suzanne Supplee

Jun 2008 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

Blubber meets Steel Magnolias in this funny and honest story about body image and family.

Rosemary Goode is smart and funny and loyal and the best eyebrow waxer in Spring Hill, Tennessee. But only one thing seems to matter to anyone, including Rosemary: her weight. And when your mom runs the most successful (and gossipy) beauty shop in town, it can be hard to keep a low profile. Rosemary resolves to lose the weight, but her journey turns out to be about everything but the scale. Her life-changing, waist-shrinking year is captured with brutal honesty and humor, topped with an extralarge helping of Southern charm. A truly uncommon novel about an increasingly common problem.

Ratings and reviews

Artichoke's Heart is a heart fealt story dealing with the pressure an over weight teenage girl can go through. Rosemary's life is both challeging and exciting as she finds love and friendship where she least expected.

This book is awesome! There is nothing bad about it (except for the disgusting teen scene in the park, in the middle of the book!)

I don't read much and if im not interested in it after the first chapter I say to hell with it but this one I read to the very end and i wasn't disappointed.

About the author

Suzanne Supplee, originally from Tennessee, lives in Maryland and works as a writer and teacher. She visited Ireland on her own many years ago and highly recommends traveling solo, at least once in a lifetime. Her favorite hobbies are reading and chasing her two Jack Russell terriers. Suzanne is married and has three daughters, Cassie, Flannery, and Elsbeth.