"Weiner's vivid characterizations and her light touch with heavy topics make this follow-up...like spending time with an understanding friend who has a knack for being great company." People
Movie-Tie In Version
Washington Square Press
August 2005
Featuring: Maggie Feller; Rose Feller
464 pages ISBN: 0743267117 Trade Size (reprint) Add to Wish List
Meet Rose Feller. She's thirty years old and a high-
powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels.
She has an exercise regime she's going to start next week,
and she dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses,
gaze into her eyes, and tell her that she's beautiful. She
also dreams of getting her fantastically screwed-up little
sister to get her life together.
aMeet Rose's sister, Maggie. Twenty-eight years old,
drop-dead gorgeous and only occasionally employed, Maggie
sings backup in a band called Whiskered Biscuit. Although
her dreams of big-screen stardom haven't progressed past
her left hip's appearance in a Will Smith video, Maggie
dreams of fame and fortune -- and of getting her dowdy big
sister to stick to a skin-care regime.
These two women with nothing in common but a childhood
tragedy, shared DNA, and the same size feet, are about to
learn that their family is more different than they ever
imagined, and that they're more alike than they'd ever
believe. In Her Shoes -- Jennifer Weiner's follow-up to her
critically acclaimed debut, Good in Bed -- observes Rose
and Maggie, the brain and the beauty, as they make journeys
of discovery that take them from the streets of
Philadelphia to Ivy League libraries to a "retirement
community for active seniors" in Boca Raton. Along the way,
they'll encounter a wild cast of characters -- from a
stepmother who's into recreational Botox to a small,
disdainful pug with no name. They'll borrow shoes and
clothes and boyfriends, and make peace with their most
intimate enemies -- each other.
Funny and poignant, richly detailed and wrenchingly real,
In Her Shoes will speak to anyone who has endured the bonds
of big -- or little -- sisterhood, or longed for a life
different from the one the world has dictated, and dreamed
of trying something else on for size.
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