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FICTION
Featuring a WSP Readers Club Guide
"Good in Bed is a delight, a contemporary Cinderella tale told with intelligence, wit, and style." —Susan Isaacs, author of Any Place I Hang My Hat and Almost Paradise
For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The Philadelphia Examiner. She's even made a tenuous peace with her plus-size body.
But the day she opens up a national women's magazine and sees the words "Loving a Larger Woman" above her ex-boyfriend's byline, Cannie is plunged into misery and the most amazing year of her life. From Philadelphia to Hollywood and back home again, she charts a new course for herself: mourning her losses, facing her past, and figuring out who she is arid who she can become.
"A breezy; sweetly oddball...
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Fülszöveg
FICTION
Featuring a WSP Readers Club Guide
"Good in Bed is a delight, a contemporary Cinderella tale told with intelligence, wit, and style." —Susan Isaacs, author of Any Place I Hang My Hat and Almost Paradise
For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The Philadelphia Examiner. She's even made a tenuous peace with her plus-size body.
But the day she opens up a national women's magazine and sees the words "Loving a Larger Woman" above her ex-boyfriend's byline, Cannie is plunged into misery and the most amazing year of her life. From Philadelphia to Hollywood and back home again, she charts a new course for herself: mourning her losses, facing her past, and figuring out who she is arid who she can become.
"A breezy; sweetly oddball urban fairy tale. . . .
Jennifer Weiner endows Cannie's story with a lot of brassy heart."
—The Miami Herald
"A crackling debut . . . Cannie emerges as one of the most engaging, realistic female characters in years. . . . [Grade:] A" —Entertainment Weekly
JENNIFER WEINER lives in Philadelphia with her family. She is also the author of Goodnight Nobody, Little Earthquakes and In Her Shoes, now a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine. To learn more visit www.jenniferweiner.com.
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