Review: B as in Beauty by Alberto Ferreras

Summary: Beauty Zavala is a self-described "fat chick." She's never felt comfortable in her own skin, or even with her own name, so she goes by "just B." All that starts to change when she meets Madame Sokolov, a sort of Russian fairy godmother/escort service. With an interesting combination of pithy wisdom and makeup advice, Madame shows B a thing or two about what beauty truly means.

My thoughts: This was a really fun book. Early in the book, B kind of drove me crazy- she's so WHINY. But as I moved on, I realized that's kind of the point. And she does get better. The real point of this book is that B's "problem" has nothing to do with what she looks like and everything to do with how she feels about it. Trite? Perhaps, but true nonetheless.

B's adventures with being a professional "comfort provider" (no sex involved) range from an old man with a foot fetish to a man who can't sleep except squished into a tiny space on his couch. There are some funny moments in this book, people. Through it all, B starts to realize that there's all kinds of lonely people in the world, and if she doesn't want to be one more of them, she better take control of her own life.

I found it interesting that this book is written by a man. So what we have here is a man telling women that they shouldn't worry about what men think of thier bodies. If I were cynical I might add, -in order that they might be more attractive to men, but I really don't think Ferreras meant it that way.

My final word: I rate this book a 4. Highly enjoyable, and guaranteed to make you think, at least momentarily.

Website for Alberto Ferreras. Go have a look at it. There's a very funny story about how this book came to be. This is another website for a character played by Alberto Ferreras that partially inspired this book, Dr. Truth.

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