Certain Girls: A Novel
by Jennifer Weiner
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Author: Jennifer WeinerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-08
ISBN: 0743294254
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Atria Books
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Book Review: A Beautiful Act of Insight
Summary: 5 Stars
The only complaint I have about Certain Girls is how forgettable the title is. This book is not meant to be the same kind of book as Good in Bed. This is the book about what happens after Prince Charming comes along and the gorgeous child becomes a teenager. Jennifer Weiner does a stunning job of voicing the concerns of the mother: her love for her daughter, her inability to see her daughter accurately, her fears for her daughter, her personal and professional struggles, her faith, her fears--and the separate but equal concerns of her daughter: her love for her mother, her inability to see her mother accurately, her humorous and heart-twisting attempts to discover who her mother is, her struggles to be accepted at school, her need to assert herself, her personal struggles. As a mother and a daughter, I know how incomprehensible mothers and daughters can be to each other--how deeply intertwined the love and pain can be.
Reading the other reviews I wonder two things: first, if others who heard the story on CD/cassette (as I did) loved it more than those who read it. The reader is extraordinary. Second, if there is a correlation between the age of the readers and their ratings. Maybe you have to have been both daughter and mother-of-a-teenager to appreciate what Weiner has done here. Or maybe you just had to be ready for Weiner to be writing something different. I think it's her best book.
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