Seeing Me Naked - by Liza Palmer

Seeing Me Naked by Liza Palmer. This is her second book and the second book of hers that I've read. Her first book, Conversations with the Fat Girl, was amazing and I actually used a quote from it as my quote on Facebook.  The way that Liza Palmer talks about life is just real. You can't help but feel what her characters are feeling be dragged into their neurosis and cheer for them to overcome them.  You laugh with them and you cry with them.  That's just what I did, again, in Seeing Me Naked.  Initially, it was just another good enjoyable book that I picked up and read during my nightly bath, putting it down and picking it back up the next night. But around the third night, about halfway through the book, I just couldn't put it down and I had to finish it.  It was really that good.  The characters are so fleshed out that they just feel real. And when the book is over you don't want it to end, you want to keep reading and know more about what happens as their lives continue.  To me, that's the true mark of a great book and a great author.

Seeing Me Naked is the story of Elisabeth Page. She's the daughter of a great Pulitzer Prize winning author. Her mother was heir to a family fortune. Her brother has followed in his father's footsteps becoming a great author in his own right.  Elisabeth, however, has followed her own path, she's a pastry chef.  Her 5 year plan has become an 11 year plan as she fights to pull herself out of the shadow of her family to discover who she really is.  It's not until she can really look at herself for who she is that someone else can do the same.  This is a love story but it's really more about learning to love yourself and learning what love really is and how to do it.