This is a must-read for any woman who struggles with body image, or for anyone who cares about someone who does. Weiner's witty, original, fast-moving debut features a lovable heroine, a solid cast, snappy dialogue and a poignant take on life's priorities. Somehow, Cannie stays strong for family and friends, joining a weight-loss group, selling her screenplay and gaining the maturity to ask for help when she faces something bigger than her fears. Their tough-as-nails mother managed to find love again with a woman, Tanya, the gravel-voiced owner of a two-ton loom. From the bestselling author of In Her Shoes, All Fall Down and the forthcoming. Cannie's siblings suffer, especially the youngest, Lucy, who has tried everything from phone sex to striptease. This book will unfortunately be removed from the service on the 14th of May. Bruce has let her down like another man in her life: Cannie's sadistic, plastic surgeon father emotionally abused her as a young girl, and eventually abandoned his wife and family, leaving no forwarding address. Three months earlier, Cannie suggested they take a break apparently, Bruce thought they were through and set about making such proclamations as, 'Loving a larger woman is an act of courage in our world.' Devastated by this public humiliation, Cannie takes comfort in tequila and her beloved dog, Nifkin. Even she is floored, however, when she reads 'Good in Bed,' a new women's magazine column penned by her ex-boyfriend, pothead grad student Bruce Guberman.

How much of GOOD IN BED is true Cannie Shapiro does have certain similarities to me - or at least to the twenty-eight-year-old version of me. Feisty, funny and less self-hating than her predecessor, Cannie is a 28-year-old Philadelphia Examiner reporter preoccupied with her weight and men, but able to see the humor in even the most unpleasant of life's broadsides. (I think it’s important to point out that I sold Good in Bed in 2000, and did not quit my day job until Book One was published, Book Two was written, and Books Three and Four were under contract). It is temping at first but unwise to assume Candace Shapiro is yet another Bridget Jones. Jennifer Weiner Take Cannie from GOOD IN BED, give her a best friend who could have co-starred on 'Sex and the City,' then transplant her from New York City to the hometown of The Stepford Wives, and you would have a pretty good facsimile of Kate Klein, Jennifer Weiners latest heroine, in GOODNIGHT NOBODY.

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