"Generous and entertaining." âPublishers Weekly (starred review)
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay * Nominated for âBest Memoir & Autobiographyâ by Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 * Named a âBest Book of the Yearâ by New York Post
"You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to read it again." âTheSkimm
âI'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." âMindy Kaling, author of Why Not Me?
"Fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave." âCheryl Strayed, author of Wild
Jennifer Weiner is many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and an âunlikely feminist enforcerâ (The New Yorker). Sheâs also a mom, a daughter, and a sister, a clumsy yogini, and a reality-TV devotee. In this âunflinching look at her own experiencesâ (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 motherâs coming out of the closet, her estranged fatherâs death. From lonely adolescence to hearing her six-year-old daughter say the F wordâfatâfor 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.