Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing

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“Generous and entertaining.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)lt 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.” TheSkimmlt 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 WildJennifer Weiner is many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and an unlikely feminist enforcer (The New Yorker). She 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 coming out of the closet, her estranged father 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.

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