Beth Gibbs – Library Journal: Center's second novel after The Bright Side of Disaster is a keeper. Lanie has just moved her family from Texas to Cambridge, MA, so that her husband, Peter, can realize his dream of becoming a professional musician. But while Peter is enthusiastic about his new challenges, Lanie mourns the loss of her old house in Houston and struggles not to go insane with the lack of money and her three little boys running wild. Changes happen slowly for Lanie. After having three babies, she is carrying extra weight, but the high of alone time at her new gym is enthralling. Then her mother mails some old cameras to Lanie, who signs up for a photography course taught by the creepy but talented Nelson. As Lanie's weight goes down and her artistic skills go up, her life with Peter is shaken. Can her marriage handle her transformation? The challenges and hilarity of young family life, combined with Lanie's heart-wrenching search for herself, will have readers laughing and crying. For all popular fiction collections.