About this item
With her best-selling debut, Girls in White Dresses An irresistible, pitch-perfect first novel Marie Claire, Jennifer Close captured friendship in those what-on-earth-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-life years of early adulthood. Now, with her sparkling new novel of parenthood and sibling rivalry, Close turns her gimlet eye to the only thing messier than friendship family. Weezy Coffeys parents had always told her she was the smart one, while her sister was the pretty one. Maureen will marry well, their mother said, but instead it was Weezy who married well, to a kind man and good father. Weezy often wonders if she did this on purposethwarting expectations just to prove her parents wrong. But now that Weezys own children are adults, they havent exactly been meeting her expectations either.
About the Author
Jennifer Close is the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses and The Smart One. Her new novel, The Hopefuls, will be out in July 2016. Born and raised on the North Shore of Chicago, she is a graduate of Boston College and received her MFA in Fiction Writing from the New School in 2005. She worked in New York in magazines for many years. She now lives in Washington, DC, and teaches creative writing at George Washington University.
