Little Earthquakes : A Novel (Washington Square Press) | Jennifer Weiner

Little Earthquakes : A Novel (Washington Square Press) | Jennifer Weiner | What a gem!

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Little Earthquakes...

	Little Earthquakes : A Novel (Washington Square Press) Jennifer Weiner, 2005 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 245 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Bestselling author Jennifer Weiner creates a tale of romance, forgiveness, and extreme sleep deprivation, as four very different women navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journey of new motherhood.

Rebecca Rothstein Rabinowitz is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderful husband, a restaurant that's received citywide acclaim, a beautiful baby girl and the mother-in-law from hell.

Kelly Day's life looks picture-perfect. But behind the doors, she's struggling to balance work, motherhood and marriage, while dealing with an unemployed husband who seems content to channel- surf for eight hours a day.

Ayinde Towne's already on shaky ground, when her basketball superstar husband breaks her trust at the most vulnerable moment in her life, putting their marriage in peril -- and thrusting their new family further into the public eye.

Then there's Lia Frederick, a Philadelphia native who has left Los Angeles behind, along with her glamorous Hollywood career, her husband, and a tragic secret.

With her trademark warmth and humor, Weiner tells the story of what happens after happily ever after.

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Wonderment!

I loved this book!!!! it reminded me of sex in the city but with babies.... i am a mother of 3 with no life so i found myself envying these women who became and remained friends with their children.

What a gem!

I loved this story. I enjoyed sharing these characters' first experiences with a newborn, from the joys and wonder of those first months to the difficulties of sleep deprivation and the strains it puts on a marriage. My daughter is 14 and this story brought me back to her early days - both the good memories and the bad. But most of all, because the tale is so honestly told, it helped me relive the miracle of my daughter's birth all over again. What a great story teller Jennifer Weiner is!

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Great Story!

This is a perfect book to read by the pool, before bed, at the beach, or anywhere. Jennifer Weiner is a fabulous author!

Thoroughly entertaining

This was the very first book I had ever read by Jennifer Weiner. And I'm glad I took the time out to read her work. This book was so entertaining. It was a page turner, funny and had very believable characters. I am a new fan of her work. And I can't wait to read another one of her novels.

Another winner from Jennifer Weiner

This is the third book I read by jennifer Weiner, and like the previous two, I really liked it. This amazes me every time, because her stories, written by someone else, would be just another chick lit book, a light "beach read" - in fact this is what you expect when you read the synopsis on the back cover of the paperback.

Instead she manages to turn a somewhat drab story line into an interesting view into someone else's life: someone else who inevitably turns out to be interesting though not incredibly special, and always relatable. You never resent that her characters are so real, that they aren't more exotic: because you get sucked into how real it all sounds, how possible it all is. And at that point, the book has long stopped being just another chick flick and has turned into something that is so close to real life to be biographic, but it's never boring, never showy (like many biographic tales are).

Jennifer Weiner is not just a great writer and a great story teller, but she's obviously a deeply empathic person too: for how else could she capture the voices of her characters so well, without ever sounding sappy or trite?

Thank you Ms. Weiner, for showing us once again that a great writer doesn't have to write in big words and boring philosophical abstracts! And for showing that "chick lit" can be well written and intelligent.

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