Hungry Heart Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing |
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Author:
| Weiner, Jennifer |
ISBN: | 978-1-68324-163-8 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2016 |
Publisher: | Center Point Large Print
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $36.95 |
Book Description:
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New York Times bestselling authorYou fall down. You get hurt. You get up again.You know Jennifer Weiner as 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 runner; a best friend and a reality TV junkie. Here, in her first foray into nonfiction, she takes the raw stuff of her personal life and spins it into a collection of essays on womanhood.Jennifer grew...
More DescriptionNew York Times bestselling authorYou fall down. You get hurt. You get up again.You know Jennifer Weiner as 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 runner; a best friend and a reality TV junkie. Here, in her first foray into nonfiction, she takes the raw stuff of her personal life and spins it into a collection of essays on womanhood.Jennifer grew up as an outsider in her picturesque Connecticut hometown and at her Ivy League college, but finally found her people in newsrooms in central Pennsylvania and Philadelphia and her voice as a novelist, activist, and New York Times columnist.No subject is off-limits in this intimate and honest essay collection: sex, weight, envy, money, her mom's late-in-life lesbianism, and her estranged father's death. From lonely adolescence to modern childbirth to hearing her six-year-old daughter's use of the f-word - fat - for the first time, Jennifer dives deep into the heart offemale experience, with the wit and candor that have endeared her to readers all over the world.