Justine Bateman

"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...

Ex-hippies Steven and Elyse are trying to raise their Young Republican son Alex, shallow daughter Mallory, and tomboy daughter Jennifer in Reagan-era America. In this season, Elyse tells Steven she is pregnant, and the family suffers through food cravings, Lamaze classes, and Elyse going into labor on television during Pledge Week. Plus, Alex starts college, Mallory gets a job she is actually good at, and Jennifer discovers boys.

Steven and Elyse Keaton have learned to accept their older children, but find it hard to accept the fact that they are practically grown up, with lives of their own: Alex is a junior in college and has a bank job; Jennifer fronts an all-girl rock band; and Mallory has left the mall behind for college where she is studying fashion.