Probably the most significant supporting character is Jacob, her unexpected love interest
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Author Interview: Justina Chen Headley
Congratulations on your third extraordinary YA novel NORTH OF BEAUTIFUL. It’s a richly woven, theme-driven, thought provoking piece of work. The story’s protagonist Terra Cooper can check a lot of the boxes in today’s oppressively rigid standards of “true beauty.” She’s got the cascading flaxen hair, the long lean legs, the perfect six-pack abs; but that’s not what makes people stare. People tend to gape unabashedly at her unfortunate birth mark. Terra has a large port wine stain on her face. What inspired you to write about this subject?
She kept making choices that made me uncomfortable-her relationship with her first boyfriend, her deception with her second-but it was Terra’s story
For a long time-as a woman, a writer, and a mother-I’ve wanted to tackle our society’s super narrow definition of beauty, but I wasn’t sure what the entry point to a story would or should be.Read More »Probably the most significant supporting character is Jacob, her unexpected love interest
