The Ugly Duckling: No One Wants Me

by Beth Goobie

Before I write the blurb can I please tell you guys that I have never called another person ugly because I know what that 4 letter word does to a person's self esteem. Her 2 big sisters got married before they reached 21. Mbali is 24 and not married, not engaged, never dated. But according to her family and society she's just too ugly. So her parents sell her to the highest bidder, but what happens when her husband who has never met her doesn't want her because she's just too ugly?

51 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 29, 2018

About the author

Beth Goobie is best known for her quirky and dark young adult novels. She's published several of them, beginning in 1994. Her novel Before Wings won the Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book Award in 2000, and was chosen by young readers for the Best Books list of the American Library Association.Much of the turmoil in Goobie's life has been laid bare in two books for adult readers, Scars of Light, which is autobiographical poetry, and The Only-Good Heart, a book of short stories. Both are built on the theme of cults, abuse, and emotional torture. They were, she says, both therapeutic for herself and a warning to others.