Making Faces

Making Faces by Harmon, Amy. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9781518609558.

Ambrose Young was beautiful. The kind of beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. Shed been reading them since she was thirteen. But maybe because he was so beautiful he was never someone Fern thought she could have...until he wasnt beautiful anymore. Making Faces is the story of a small town where five young men go off to war, and only one comes back. It is the story of loss. Collective loss, individual loss, loss of beauty, loss of life, loss of identity. It is the tale of one girls love for a broken boy, and a wounded warriors love for an unremarkable girl. This is a story of friendship that overcomes heartache, heroism that defies the common definitions, and a modern tale of Beauty and the Beast, where we discover that there is a little beauty and a little beast in all of us.