Future Perfect

50 pounds for a trip to Disneyland. 75 pounds for a shopping trip in Paris. 80 pounds for a new car.

Every year on her birthday, Ashley Perkins gets a card from her grandmother-a card that always contains a promise: lose enough weight, and I will buy your happiness.

Ashley is content with her body as it is. But she falters when Grandmother offers the one thing she’s always wanted: tuition to Harvard University, in exchange for undergoing weight-loss surgery. What’s a girl to do when the reflection in her mirror seems to bother everyone…but her

The frank discussion of body image, and the author’s first-hand experience living through weight-loss surgery, make for a liberating read-a tale of one girl, who knows that weight is just a number, and that no one is completely perfect.