Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-
tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who
found her happy ending after her mother came out of the
closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-
boyfriend started chronicling their ex-sex life in the
pages of a national magazine.
Now Cannie's back. After
her debut novel -- a fictionalized (and highly sexualized)
version of her life -- became an overnight bestseller, she
dropped out of the public eye and turned to writing
science fiction under a pseudonym. She's happily married
to the tall, charming diet doctor Peter Krushelevansky and
has settled into a life that she finds wonderfully
predictable -- knitting in the front row of her daughter
Joy's drama rehearsals, volunteering at the library, and
taking over-forty yoga classes with her best friend
Samantha.
As preparations for Joy's bat mitzvah begin,
everything seems right in Cannie's world. Then Joy
discovers the novel Cannie wrote years before and suddenly
finds herself faced with what she thinks is the truth
about her own conception -- the story her mother hid from
her all her life. When Peter surprises his wife by saying
he wants to have a baby, the family is forced to
reconsider its history, its future, and what it means to
be truly happy.
Radiantly funny and disarmingly tender,
with Weiner's whip-smart dialogue and sharp observations
of modern life, Certain Girls is an unforgettable
story about love, loss, and the enduring bonds of family.
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