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I need to change my life. On the surface, it doesn't look too bad. Great body, check. Pretty face, check. Job, check. Chicken pox. Check.
Stuck in her Danbury, Connecticut, condo in self-imposed exile until she's contagion-free, Scarlett Jane Stein keeps circling around to a passing comment her friend Pam made: how everything (read: men) comes to Scarlett just because she's attractive.
Is it true? All her life she's thought that she was fun to be around, that people liked her. Was it only because she was pretty (say it—because she's got incredible breasts)? Or is Pam, tired of playing second fiddle, now playing her? All Scarlett knows is that she's never found the man she believes is out there, her One True Love. So maybe Scarlett needs to change things up.
So it's goodbye, Scarlett and hello, dowdier, schlumpier Lettie Shaw. And with her new look, new name, new home and new job, is there a chance that Lettie-née-Scarlett will find someone who loves her for who she is inside? Or has Scarlett's little change of face turned into the biggest mistake of her life?
- Sales Rank: #1781984 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-08-15
- Released on: 2012-08-15
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Scarlett Jane Stein has always turned men's heads. With her long, black hair and perfect breasts, she draws attention wherever she goes. But an adult case of the chicken pox and the words of her envious friend Pam make Scarlett start to wonder if her looks, not her personality, are the only reason men like her. So Scarlett opts for a "makeunder," cutting off her long hair and dressing in dowdy clothing. Determined to truly reinvent herself, Scarlett quits her job at the Danbury Library, changes her name to Lettie Shaw, and gets herself hired at the smaller Bethel Library. She sets her sights on Saul, a handsome investment adviser she meets in a bar who, sure enough, just wants to be friends, that is, until Scarlett defrumps at a Halloween party. But one of the library's patrons--Steve Holt, a window painter--seems to be taking to Lettie just as she is. Baratz-Logsted offers a clever twist on makeover fiction. Kristine Huntley
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Review
". . . chick-lit with a twist!" -- Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries, on Crossing the Line
"A Little Change of Face not only has something to say about how women look, and are looked at . . ." -- Christopher Moore, author of Lamb and Fluke
"Lauren Baratz-Logsted has a great voice." -- Romantic Times on Crossing the Line
"[A] terrific read -- a story that is dryly funny, brightly written and emotionally satisfying." -- Peter Lefcourt, author of Eleven Karens and The Woody, on Crossing the Line
About the Author
Lauren Baratz-Logsted is the author of The Thin Pink Line and Crossing the Line. She lives with her husband and daughter in Danbury, Connecticut, where, like Scarlett Jane Stein, she shoots a lot of pool.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
I wanted to like this, I really did...
By CoffeeGurl
Thirty-nine-year-old librarian Scarlett Jane Stein (named after Scarlett O'Hara, of course) is drop-dead gorgeous. She is a petite brunette with a slim, fit bod and perfect breasts. Men line up at bars to buy her drinks. In short, Scarlett has no idea how the other side of life -- the plain or simply ugly side -- lives, and her "Default Best Friend" Pam makes sure she does. She challenges Scarlett to look as unattractive and unappealing as possible to see if men still like her. Scarlett agrees to do it; she wants to know if men want her for her personality and not just because of her breasts. So Scarlett turns into Lettie Shaw -- a plain woman who wears thick glasses, shapeless dresses and a boyish haircut. With her new persona, she meets two attractive men, Saul and Steve. One is a superficial jerk, the other one is Mr. Boy Next Door. Will Scarlett/Lettie know the difference? In her misguided Extreme-Makeover-in-reverse experiment, she discovers not only how others perceive her and women's looks in general, but how she sees herself.
I get what the author tries to do with this book. I can appreciate how different this is from cookie-cutter chick-lits out there. Most of the characters aren't very likable (especially Pam. What a petty, jealous person! And how on earth did Scarlett not see through her?), including the heroine, whom I had a hard time identifying with for most of the novel. The only thing she and I have in common is that we love books... and that we're both vertically challenged (I, too, am only five feet tall)... and we're brown-eyed brunettes... and the breasts thing rings a bell. Okay, okay, so we do have a few things in common, but the similarities end there. I appreciate her personality flaws and the fact that she cannot see what is so patently obvious. We've all been there at some point in our lives. The thing is that I liked the premise, appreciated the message, but disliked the execution. I couldn't get into this novel, which is a shame, for Lauren Baratz-Logsted is a talented writer. I LOVED her novel Vertigo and I really wanted to love this one too. Alas, I didn't. One of the chapters starts out with something along the lines of, "I bet you're dying to know about my breasts." Uh, no! Have lunch with one of your friends and have her talk to you about her breasts and see how fun that is. Only men would find the aforementioned topic interesting. Anyway, I bought How Nancy Drew Saved My Life and I have my fingers crossed, hoping that book will be better than this one.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A Little Change of Face, Indeed
By shajopri
This is my second of Lauren's novels to read, and I'm beginning to know what to expect from her -- gleeful wit, sweet yet wacky heroines, and characters who do the most illogical things for very logical reasons. With creations that lie in that intersection between completely relatable and unbelievably insane, we laugh and sympathize with her protagonists even as we gawk in shock at their actions. A Little Change of Face is no different, the main character, tired of superficial attention for being so beautiful decides to give herself an inverted makeover and see how her life changes. Along her adventure, we see how the protagonist, Scarlett, and her alter-ego, Lettie hierarchize her best friends (the real best friend, the default best friend) as many women secretly do, get a satiracal view into pseudo-intellectual women's books clubs, and are privty to her by turns insightful, juvenile, and keyed-up reactions to men. It is the treatment of Lettie's friends that seems to draw the most flack in this book. If it matters, I am Black, among other things, and I found T.B. to be satire, which means, if you think her role in the book as the non-standard English talking accessory is racist, you're right! Lauren is showing how the use of minority characters as marginalized, cliched stereotypes is wrong, so she names the character T.B. so that we acknowledge the character as an unjust creation. It would be more racist to have called the character Susan or Molly and acted as if her stereotypical behavior was meant as realism -- like, for example, the indigenous and black people in the works of Isabel Allende. Then we would too be a party to racist behavior by reading the book without any sense of the problematic. I suggest that people who don't like this book b/c of T.B. watch Spike Lee's Bamboozled. This black director creates a blackface show in his movie not to say blackface is okay but to skewer, through satire, stereotypical black television. This book is indeed a little change of face, it's warm, witty, joyful chick-lit that decides to get a bit political. A worthy read.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Disliked Characters Too Much to Enjoy This Read
By M. E. Wood
Thirty nine year old Scarlett Jane Stein is a librarian in Danbury, Connecticut. Scarlett has always been a beautiful girl. She has a great job, men drool over her and she has a great best friend, who is also beautiful, but unfortunately lives on the other side of the globe. I say unfortunately because her "default best friend" Pam has made Scarlett believe men only like her for her looks and if they got a chance to know her they wouldn't be interested. Pam wants to help her test this theory by making her over to look unattractive. She wants to get rid of Scarlett's body hugging clothes, pristine makeup, contacts and luscious hair. She'd even bind her breasts if Scarlett would let her. To make this new configuration work Scarlett also changes her name to Lettie Shaw, changes jobs and moves from her condo to an abode in a neighbouring borough.
As Scarlett undergoes these changes Pam undergoes some of her own. Beautifying herself; perhaps to take over Scarlett's place. She enjoys the changes a little bit too much, "Pam surveyed my reflection in the mirror with satisfaction--the shapeless mauve dress, my short hair, my glasses--the same reflection that caused me such unease because I felt as though I didn't know this woman."
When Scarlett... ur... um.. Lettie continues to attract men in her lopped off hair and moomoo Pam becomes increasingly frustrated. Her jealousy becomes obvious, "Oh, shit," Pam muttered. "It doesn't matter what I do to you, does it? Someone still finds you attractive."
Throughout all this Scarlett/Lettie keeps her "best girlfriend", who she grew up with, informed of the changes. Best girlfriend thinks Pam has ulterior motives but Scarlett/Lettie seems blind to them. She's so worried about her friend she travels to rescue her from this so called "friend". When Lettie begins to question, Pam insists, "I'm your friend. I'm trying to help you find out if people like you merely for what you look like and not who you are."
Scarlett/Lettie begins to see changes in herself and learn more about herself as Lettie than she did as Scarlett. At one point she gets locked up in a split personality you think will land her in an institution but she recovers. This story isn't without love interests. There's Saul the business guy and Steve the artist. Most of Scarlett/Lettie's relationships have been about sex and most particularly her breasts (men love her breasts... Scarlett loves her breasts). She has never really had someone say she was funny, smart or good company. Lettie has opened Scarlett up to a whole new life and she's enjoying it. Her problem is combining the two lives and deciding on which man she loves and who loves her for who she is but will they forgive the deception?
I'm on a "that" tangent lately and can't seem to get it out of my head when I'm reading, especially if it's blatantly overused. This book had it's "that" moments, "it seems equally likely that that same culture that built the Parthenon and that treats flying tableware as objects..." The settings were carefully considered but I didn't find the antics of this thirty-nine-year old believable: ducking behind trees, playing a post office game. She is judgemental, self involved and immature, making it hard to like her. By the end she learns her assumptions about others aren't what they seem and gains perspective not only on others but on herself. But by then it was too late, my interest in her was beyond saving. Reviewed by M. E. Wood
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