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Summary and Reviews of In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner

In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner

In Her Shoes

by Jennifer Weiner
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  • Sep 1, 2002, 432 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Jul 2003, 448 pages
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Follows three expertly realized and finely nuanced characters on an alternately hilarious and heartrending journey in search of contentment, connection--and each other.

Maggie Feller is twenty-eight years old, has never held a job longer than three months, and dreams of stardom, the fulfillment of which has somehow sputtered despite the appearance of her left hip in a Will Smith video. Rose Feller is thirty years old, a fast-rising attorney at a big Philadelphia firm and in love with the absolute wrong man. Rose and Maggie's grandmother, Ella Hirsch, is ensconced in retirement-ville Florida, cramming her days with volunteer work that serves as penance for the death of her daughter. Ella hasn't' seen Rose or Maggie since the funeral, decades ago. In Her Shoes follows those three expertly realized and finely nuanced characters on an alternately hilarious and heartrending journey in search of contentment, connection-and each other.

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Library Journal - Rebecca Sturm Kelm
Reworking the age-old theme that self-knowledge and acceptance are needed before love and happiness can be achieved, Weiner embroiders serious matters with threads of humor to produce a novel full of memorable characters and situations. Here's a novel that satisfies on many levels.

Publishers Weekly
Weiner, a marvelously natural storyteller, blends humor and heartbreak to create an irresistible novel.

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