Synopses & Reviews
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and “one of the biggest names in popular fiction” (USA TODAY) comes a collection of personal essays as uproariously funny as the best of Tina Fey and Nora Ephron. In her forty-something years, bestselling novelist Jennifer Weiner has gone from feeling like an outsider in her picturesque Connecticut hometown (“a Lane Bryant outtake in an Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue”), to being a Princeton graduate, to a successful newspaper reporter in Philadelphia, and, eventually, a mother, novelist, and occasional Hollywood boldfaced name.
Weiner’s hilarious and insightful chronicles of her life cover everything from her bad dates to her mother coming out of the closet at age fifty-four to casting a goat in her sitcom. Jennifer pairs her trademark sharp humor with disarming candor in this, her first nonfiction work. No subject is off limits, and that includes hearing her daughter use the F-word—fat—for the first time, and learning from the police that her estranged father had died in his girlfriend’s bathroom. Crazy-funny and deeply touching by turns, this collection will prove that the voice behind Jennifer Weiner’s beloved novels is every bit as endearing, smart, and quirky as it is in real life.
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"Weiner is coming off a year in Hollywood, and she puts the experience to excellent use in this utterly engaging story of a showrunner who, after six years of slogging, finally gets a series on the air, only to discover that her troubles are only beginning—meddling studio execs, egomaniacal actors and one crushable but unobtainable boss."
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“A knockout. Perfect comic timing meets effortless dialogue and an engaging plot…. Enjoy your place on top of the lit world, Jennifer Weiner. You've more than made it.”
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“Ruth is a multidimensional heroine, and Weiner gives her real heart and soul. Readers will root for her to get everything she ever wanted—not to settle for the next best thing. This is contemporary women’s fiction at its finest.”
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“Weiner’s snappy new novel showcases her humor and style."
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“Weiner is a chick-lit writer with chops—and she puts them to expert use in this funny, feel-good tale.”
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"A savvy tale… told with equal parts love and longing—whether it be for a partner, a purpose, or a family."
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“Weiner has emerged as one of the biggest names in popular fiction.”
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“Jennifer Weiner’s bestselling novels twist humor and topical issues into can’t-put-down stories."
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Praise for Who Do You Love:"Readers will simultaneously want to savor and devour Weiners latest... With her well-known humor and charm, she conveys the essence of first love, particularly the adage that true love never dies. Complete with a riveting, realistic recounting of 9/11 and a plot twist that will make your jaw drop, Weiners brilliantly written novel will capture your heart." Library Journal (starred review)
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“Weiners latest is pure romance and utterly heart tugging, showcasing her ability to write characters that readers will instantly connect with, flaws and all. There is a special delight here in getting to know Rachel and Andy from childhood to adulthood, and readers will find themselves laughing, crying, and hoping right along with the pair.” Booklist (starred review)
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"Overwhelmingly this is an affecting novel about how people carry the heavy burdens that came with their lives -- and how they set them down so they can goon... Weiner draws her characters with empathy and nuance. We take the 30-year journey with them, and root for them along the way." The Philadelphia Inquirer
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"Readers will laugh, cry and find themselves caught up in the story, as Weiner explores the idea: 'Do soul mates really exist?' Weiner brings the characters to life with intricate details...It's a story about love gained and lost, and love eternal." Associated Press
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"Its The Fault in Our Stars all grown-up: Two kids meet in an ER, cross paths later—and dont die. Thank you, book gods.” Glamour
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“A tale of love against the odds...Weiner's latest is a summer heart-warmer." People
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“The author of In Her Shoes gives you all the feels. About two kids who meet in an unexpected way...and continue to do so throughout their lives. Its like One Day meets 'When Harry Met Sally' meets your new beach read.” TheSkimm
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"This moving story of love that spans a lifetime is Weiner at her heartstring-tugging best... There are plenty of twists and turns in their relationship, and it's satisfying to watch them wind their ways toward the novel's perfectly realized conclusion." Kirkus Reviews
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"Jennifer Weiner returns with what might be her best love story yet. The sure-to-be smash is a classic love story, told over the course of two decades, twisted up with modern cultural observations and maybe just a miniature ode to Save the Last Dance and When Harry Met Sally." The Austin Chronicle
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“A must read... This roller-coaster romance—of two people from two very different sides of the track—proves we cant choose who we love.” New York Post
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"This is Weiner's first-ever straightforward love story, centering on two characters,Rachel and Andy, who meet as children in the hospital waiting room. The book chronicles their journey through adulthood, as they determine whether they're soul mates despite wildly different backgrounds: Rachel, from a wealthy family and born with a congenital heart defect; and Andy, from a poor neighborhood in Philadelphia with dreams of running in the Olympics." The Washington Post
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“Weiner ventured into new territory in her latest entry in her signature genre:popular, smart fiction for and about grown-up women. Who Do You Love opens with Rachel and Andy actually meeting briefly as 8-year-olds in a busy hospital ER waiting room, then quickly separates them for the first time—but not the last—in the story that spans three decades. Told in chapters that alternate between Rachel's and Andy's lives, it's a first for Weiner in that the man essentially gets equal time in one of her books." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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“A good old-fashioned heartstrings-puller, one that readers will happily lose themselves in at the beach (or anywhere else, really).” Book Reporter
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“Next up on our summer reading list: This newly-released must-read!” Good Housekeeping
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“A novel about first love, growing up, and fate from the incomparable Jennifer Weiner. Who Do You Love is a love story about two people who fall in and out of touch over and over again but never stop thinking about each other.” ” PopSugar
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"Weiner has made a career out of conjuring women who have body image problems, falling out of love regularly and are generally relatable to the rest of us... From her first novel, Weiner has a mastery of the telling detail. Her latest novel has a notably more serious tone from her past work. The main characters meet in the hospital when they're both eight years old and spend the rest of the novel moving in and out of each other's lives." Jewish Forward
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“Weiners books are about very real, three-dimensional women who face very real, complex problems:body image issues, distant mothers, alcoholic fathers, infertility, addiction,cheating partners, loneliness, societal biases, suburban snobbery, and more. Reading one of her books is a completely engrossing experience, and you finish the final page feeling like you can face your own challenges with just a little more courage.” Refinery 29
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“Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are an unlikely pair with an even more unlikely meeting as children in a Florida hospital. While that encounter was brief, the impact was long lasting.As the duo grows up—Rachel explores a life that involves helping others while Andy turns his childhood passion for running into a career—they have a few chance encounters that shape the rest of their lives. Who Do You Love is a refreshing love story that takes you inside the heads of two very real characters, and it reads just like your favorite movie.” Self
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“The latest novel in the American authors wildly adored canon is an engaging summer read about a romance that simmers over a lifetime…another heartbreaking and witty tale on the perils of finding—and keeping—that first love.” Hello
Synopsis
I m mad Jennifer Weiner s first book of essays is as wonderful as her fiction. You will love this book and wish she was your friend. Mindy Kaling, author of Why Not Me?
A fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave book. I was spellbound from the first page to the last. Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild
Generous, entertaining this memoir will enthusiastically reach out to female readers and swiftly draw them close. Publishers Weekly, starred review
Jennifer Weiner is many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and an unlikely feminist enforcer (The New Yorker). She s also a mom, a daughter and a sister, a former rower and current clumsy yogini, a wife, a friend, and a reality-TV devotee. In her first essay collection, she takes the raw stuff of her life and spins it into a collection of tales of modern-day womanhood as uproariously funny and moving as the best of Nora Ephron and Tina Fey. Born in Louisiana, raised in Connecticut, educated at Princeton, Jennifer spent years feeling like an outsider ( a Lane Bryant outtake in an Abercrombie & Fitch world ) before finding her people in newsrooms, and her voice as a novelist, activist, and New York Times columnist.
No subject is off-limits in these intimate and honest stories: sex, weight, envy, money, her mother s coming out of the closet, her estranged father s death. From lonely adolescence to modern childbirth to hearing her six-year-old daughter say the f-word fat for the first time, Jen dives deep into the heart of female experience, with the wit and candor that have endeared her to readers all over the world.
Hilarious and moving, Hungry Heart is about yearning and fulfillment, loss and love, and a woman who searched for her place in the world, and found it as a storyteller.
More praise for Hungry Heart:
Haven t we all wondered exactly how the many-splendored Jennifer Weiner became so many-splendored? This candid, poignant, and very funny memoir tells all, and I m confident other readers will be as fascinated and moved by it as I was. Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author
A collection of essays that deals with all of the issues we want to hear Jen speak about, all with the heart and humor that are the hallmarks of her fiction. PopSugar
Weiner lays her heart bare in this memoir, which is insightful and affecting and affirms exactly why she is so popular she is gifted in the ability to write honestly and easily. Booklist"
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Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Nominated for "Best Memoir & Autobiography" by Goodreads Choice Awards 2016
I m mad Jennifer Weiner s first book of essays is as wonderful as her fiction. You will love this book and wish she was your friend. Mindy Kaling, author of Why Not Me?
A fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave book. I was spellbound from the first page to the last. Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild
Generous, entertaining this memoir will enthusiastically reach out to female readers and swiftly draw them close. Publishers Weekly, starred review
Jennifer Weiner is many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and an unlikely feminist enforcer (The New Yorker). She s also a mom, a daughter and a sister, a former rower and current clumsy yogini, a wife, a friend, and a reality-TV devotee. In her first essay collection, she takes the raw stuff of her life and spins it into a collection of tales of modern-day womanhood as uproariously funny and moving as the best of Nora Ephron and Tina Fey. Born in Louisiana, raised in Connecticut, educated at Princeton, Jennifer spent years feeling like an outsider ( a Lane Bryant outtake in an Abercrombie & Fitch world ) before finding her people in newsrooms, and her voice as a novelist, activist, and New York Times columnist.
No subject is off-limits in these intimate and honest stories: sex, weight, envy, money, her mother s coming out of the closet, her estranged father s death. From lonely adolescence to modern childbirth to hearing her six-year-old daughter say the f-word fat for the first time, Jen dives deep into the heart of female experience, with the wit and candor that have endeared her to readers all over the world.
Hilarious and moving, Hungry Heart is about yearning and fulfillment, loss and love, and a woman who searched for her place in the world, and found it as a storyteller.
More praise for Hungry Heart:
Haven t we all wondered exactly how the many-splendored Jennifer Weiner became so many-splendored? This candid, poignant, and very funny memoir tells all, and I m confident other readers will be as fascinated and moved by it as I was. Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author
A collection of essays that deals with all of the issues we want to hear Jen speak about, all with the heart and humor that are the hallmarks of her fiction. PopSugar
Weiner lays her heart bare in this memoir, which is insightful and affecting and affirms exactly why she is so popular she is gifted in the ability to write honestly and easily. Booklist"
Synopsis
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay * Nominated for "Best Memoir & Autobiography" by Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 * Named a "Best Book of the Year" by New York Post
"I'm mad Jennifer Weiner's first book of essays is as wonderful as her fiction. You will love this book and wish she was your friend." --Mindy Kaling, author of Why Not Me?
"A fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave book. I was spellbound from the first page to the last." --Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild
"Generous, entertaining...this memoir will enthusiastically reach out to female readers and swiftly draw them close." --Publishers Weekly, starred review
Jennifer Weiner is many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and an "unlikely feminist enforcer" (The New Yorker). She's also a mom, a daughter and a sister, a former rower and current clumsy yogini, a wife, a friend, and a reality-TV devotee. In her first essay collection, she takes the raw stuff of her life and spins it into a collection of tales of modern-day womanhood as uproariously funny and moving as the best of Nora Ephron and Tina Fey. Born in Louisiana, raised in Connecticut, educated at Princeton, Jennifer spent years feeling like an outsider ("a Lane Bryant outtake in an Abercrombie & Fitch world") before finding her people in newsrooms, and her voice as a novelist, activist, and New York Times columnist.
No subject is off-limits in these intimate and honest stories: sex, weight, envy, money, her mother's coming out of the closet, her estranged father's death. From lonely adolescence to modern childbirth to hearing her six-year-old daughter say the f-word--fat--for the first time, Jen dives deep into the heart of female experience, with the wit and candor that have endeared her to readers all over the world.
Hilarious and moving, Hungry Heart is about yearning and fulfillment, loss and love, and a woman who searched for her place in the world, and found it as a storyteller.
More praise for Hungry Heart:
"Haven't we all wondered exactly how the many-splendored Jennifer Weiner became so many-splendored? This candid, poignant, and very funny memoir tells all, and I'm confident other readers will be as fascinated and moved by it as I was." --Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author
"A collection of essays that deals with all of the issues we want to hear Jen speak about, all with the heart and humor that are the hallmarks of her fiction." --PopSugar
"Weiner lays her heart bare in this memoir, which is insightful and affecting and affirms exactly why she is so popular--she is gifted in the ability to write honestly and easily." --Booklist
Synopsis
"Generous and entertaining." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay * Nominated for "Best Memoir & Autobiography" by Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 * Named a "Best Book of the Year" by New York Post
"You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to read it again." --TheSkimm
"I'm mad Jennifer's Weiner's first book of essays is as wonderful as her fiction. You will love this book and wish she was your friend." --Mindy Kaling, author of Why Not Me?
"Fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave." --Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild
Jennifer Weiner is many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and an "unlikely feminist enforcer" (The New Yorker). She's also a mom, a daughter, and a sister, a clumsy yogini, and a reality-TV devotee. In this "unflinching look at her own experiences" (Entertainment Weekly), Jennifer fashions tales of modern-day womanhood as uproariously funny and moving as the best of Nora Ephron and Tina Fey.
No subject is off-limits in these intimate and honest essays: sex, weight, envy, money, her mother's coming out of the closet, her estranged father's death. From lonely adolescence to hearing her six-year-old daughter say the F word--fat--for the first time, Jen dives into the heart of female experience, with the wit and candor that have endeared her to readers all over the world.
About the Author
Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven books, which have spent a combined five years on the bestseller list, with over 15 million copies in print in thirty-six countries. Her iconic debut Good in Bed is now in its fifty-ninth printing. In Her Shoes was turned into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine. All Fall Down has become one of the best-reviewed novels of 2014, and is hailed as “compulsively readable” by The New York Times Book Review. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives with her family in Philadelphia. Visit her online at JenniferWeiner.com.