Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing / Jennifer Weiner.
You fall down. You get hurt. You get up again. You know Jennifer Weiner as many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and "an unlikely feminist enforcer" (The New Yorker). She's also a mom, a daughter, and a sister; a former rower and current runner; a best friend and a reality TV junkie. Here, in her first foray into nonfiction, she takes the raw stuff of her personal life and spins it into a collection of essays on womanhood as uproariously funny and moving as the best of Tina Fey, Fran Lebowitz, and Nora Ephron. Jennifer grew up as an outsider in her picturesque Connecticut hometown ("a Lane Bryant outtake in an Abercrombie & Fitch photo shoot") and at her Ivy League college, but finally found her people in newsrooms in central Pennsylvania and Philadelphia and her voice as a novelist, activist, and New York Times columnist. No subject is off-limits in this intimate and honest essay collection: sex, weight, envy, money, her mom's late-in-life lesbianism, and her estranged father's death. From lonely adolescence to modern childbirth to hearing her six-year-old daughter's use of the f-word--fat;--for the first time, Jennifer dives deep into the heart of female experience, with the wit and candor that have endeared her to readers all over the world. By turns hilarious and deeply touching, "Hungry Heart" is about yearning and longing, love and loss, and a woman who searched for her place in the world--and found it as a storyteller.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781476723402
- ISBN: 1476723400
- ISBN: 9781476723426
- Physical Description: 402 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Atria Books edition
- Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2016.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Hungry Heart 1 -- Outsiders 8 -- ...and Then There Was Nora 31 -- Road Trip 45 -- Fat Jennifer in the Promised Land 54 -- Admissions 70 -- Worth 93 -- Not That Kind of Writer 106 -- Travels with Molly 114 -- Girl Reporter 128 -- Nanna's Gefilte Fish (Philadelphia Inquirer) 141 -- Renaissance Fran 146 -- My Girls 159 -- Two in a Million (Good Housekeeping) 192 -- With Child 194 -- Never Breastfeed in a Sweater Dress, and Other Parenting Tips I Learned the Hard Way 219 -- Nanna on the Silver Screen 223 -- Appetites 238 -- A Few Words About Bodies 250 -- F Word (Allure) 258 -- "Some Say a Parent Should Teach a Child to Swim" 265 -- Mean Girls in the Retirement Home (New York Times) 275 -- Judging Women 281 -- Twitter, Reconsidered 294 -- TLA: The Bachelor and Me 321 -- Miss 328 -- One Good Thing 344 -- Men and Dogs: A Love Story 371.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | BIO WEI (Text) | 36015000234852 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
