Pretty ugly : a novel
(Book)

A "satirical look at a dysfunctional southern family complete with an overbearing stage mom, a 9 year-old pageant queen, a cheating husband, his teenage girlfriend, a crazy grandmother and Jesus"--,Provided by publisher.

After eight-and-a-half years and three hundred twenty-three pageants, Miranda Miller has become the ultimate stage mother. Her mission in life is to see that her third daughter, Bailey, continues to be one of the most successful child pageant contestants in the southern United States. But Bailey wants to retire and has been secretly binge eating to make herself "unpageantable." Miranda's husband, Ray, a full-time nurse, has a pregnant wife, a pregnant teenage mistress, two jobs, a drug habit, and a mountain of debt. And Miranda's mother, Joan, spends her free time playing cards and planning a murder with Jesus. How can anything go wrong?