Beauty Before Comfort: A MemoirA beautiful and touching memoir of Allison Glocks grandmother, this is both an extraordinary portrait of a truly remarkable woman and a engaging history of 20th century Appalachia. '"Beauty before comfort," she would say as she trimmed her brows and cinched her belts corset tight. My grandmother is so beautiful she has never once been comfortable, a cross she bears with the subtlety of Liberace.' So writes Allison Glock at the start of her remarkable