Certain Girls
A Novel
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4.1 • 150 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend started chronicling their ex-sex life in the pages of a national magazine.
Now Cannie's back. After her debut novel -- a fictionalized (and highly sexualized) version of her life -- became an overnight bestseller, she dropped out of the public eye and turned to writing science fiction under a pseudonym. She's happily married to the tall, charming diet doctor Peter Krushelevansky and has settled into a life that she finds wonderfully predictable -- knitting in the front row of her daughter Joy's drama rehearsals, volunteering at the library, and taking over-forty yoga classes with her best friend Samantha.
As preparations for Joy's bat mitzvah begin, everything seems right in Cannie's world. Then Joy discovers the novel Cannie wrote years before and suddenly finds herself faced with what she thinks is the truth about her own conception -- the story her mother hid from her all her life. When Peter surprises his wife by saying he wants to have a baby, the family is forced to reconsider its history, its future, and what it means to be truly happy.
Radiantly funny and disarmingly tender, with Weiner's whip-smart dialogue and sharp observations of modern life, Certain Girls is an unforgettable story about love, loss, and the enduring bonds of family.
Customer Reviews
Coming of age story of Joy who’s dead
Joy and her mom experience many typical teenager mother disagreements misunderstandings and screaming matches and they’re hilariously funny with their matching sardonic humor and dry wit. I adored the whole story
Amazing book!!!
Even thou I found myself using the dictionary more than once to understand certain things about the Jewish religion and culture, I loved the book. Now as a mother made me understand a lot about myself when growing up, also this made me cry like I have never cried reading a
book before.
I am searching to see if there's a book 3 because there's a lot of things are still up in the air for me. Also I didn't understand in book 1 why Cannie didn't have Bruce girlfriend arrested, she deserved it and I am happy Cannie found love with Dr. K
Awesome book, Read it!!!!
Another fantastic JW book
Great story and I loved how it was written from the moms perspective and the daughters. Brings you back to what it was like being a teenager. I loved it!