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London Maxwell has kept a mental list for nearly thirty years. She refers to it as thelist of why she feels fat and inadequate, an unhealthy list to be sure. This list becameone of the building blocks that formed the person London Abernathy Maxwell grewup to be. Other foundational building blocks included all of the unkind appraisalsfrom others she refused to forget over the years, unrealistic expectations of aculture obsessed with youth and unattainable ideals of beauty, and her own criticalruminations. Nearly thirty years after he left London and her mother, London’sfather invites her to spend Christmas with him and his second wife. London acceptsthe invitation but returns home disappointed that the trip didn’t lead to any kind ofaccord between herself and her father, or any progress in healing her badly damagedself image. Over the next few months she finds herself taking a scenic detour on herjourney toward claiming the restoration she desperately desires. Her fellow wayfarerson this journey include her dearest friend who faces a foe she thought she haddefeated; her mother who lost her husband but refuses to let go of anything else; andher daughter who is following London’s blueprint of self loathing in building her ownfoundation. On this detour she encounters a man who broke her heart, a woman whopersonified the cultural ideal of beauty to a young London, and the grandmotherlyfigure whom London had forgotten about a long time ago. Many people have a rolein helping London arrive at her destination. However, London cannot trade in herashes for beauty until she accepts the truth from the One who saw her beauty beforeHe spoke her into existence.
