Justine Bateman

When Lisa Temple wakes up in the hospital, she remembers nothing - her name, who she is, her husband Paul's intention to divorce her or that she was badly beaten and left for dead in an alley. When Paul takes her home, Lisa must relearn everything from how food tastes to making love. As Lisa's memory returns, she uncovers some of the secrets of her past, both happy and tragic.

"Face is a book of fictional vignettes that examines the fear and vestigial evolutionary habits that have caused women and men to cultivate the imagined reality that older women's faces are unattractive, undesirable, and something to be "fixed." Based on "older face" experiences of the author, Justine Bateman, and those of dozens of women and men she interviewed, the book presents the reader with the many root causes for society's often negative attitudes...

"Now a college sophomore, Alex falls in love with Ellen, a girl who's his total opposite. And Mallory falls for Nick, a junkyard sculptor who's her intellectual equal! But it's young Jennifer who feels off-balance, as she grows closer to mom Elyse but more distant from dad Steven now that she's becoming a teenager. But even with their older kids changing, and as baby Andrew's diapers still need changing, the Keaton parents know their four kids will...

Eugene Jerome, a raw recruit from Brooklyn, is sent to boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi, where he expects the army to be dolls, doughnuts, and USO dances. Instead, he encounters a tough drill sergeant and a platoon of often hostile recruits.

Mark and Lorna, an enormously successful husband-and-wife screenwriting team, find their marriage and their careers on the line when Mark drifts into a casual affair, and Lorna becomes immersed in a world of clinical depression and chemical dependency.