Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this
collection of short stories, following the tender, and often
hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the
course of a lifetime. From a teenager coming to terms with
her father's disappearance to a widow accepting two young
women into her home, Weiner's eleven stories explore those
transformative moments in our every day.
We meet
Marlie Davidow, home alone with her new baby late one Friday
night, when she wanders onto her ex's online wedding
registry and wonders what if she had wound up with the guy
not taken. We stumble on Good in Bed's Bruce
Guberman, liquored-up and ready for anything on the night of
his best friend's bachelor party, until stealing his
girlfriend's tiny rat terrier becomes more complicated than
he'd planned. We find Jessica Norton listing her beloved New
York City apartment in the hope of winning her broker's
heart. And we follow an unlikely friendship between two very
different new mothers, and the choices that bring them
together -- and pull them apart.
The Guy Not
Taken demonstrates Weiner's amazing ability to create
characters who "feel like they could be your best friend"
(Janet Maslin) and to find hope and humor, longing and love
in the hidden corners of our common experiences.
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