num_pages: 432
description: Shes also a mom a daughter and a sister; a former rower and current cyclist; a best friend and a reality TV junkie. In her first foray into nonfiction she takes the raw stuff of her personal life and spins into a collection of essays on modern womanhood as uproariously funny and moving as the best of Tina Fey Fran Lebowitz and Nora Ephron.Jennifer grew up as an outsider in her picturesque Connecticut hometown (a Lane Bryant outtake in an Abercrombie &amp; Fitch photo shoot) 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 moms newfound lesbianism and her estranged fathers death. From lonely adolescence to modern childbirth to hearing her six-year-old daughters use of the f-wordfatfor the first time Jennifer Weiner goes there with the wit and candor that have endeared her to readers all over the world.By turns hilarious and deeply touching this collection shows that the woman behind treasured novels like Good in Bed and Best Friends Forever is every bit as winning smart and honest in real life as she is in her fiction.
language: English
title: Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
publisher: Atria Books