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"This is summer reading at its best: entertaining and full of insight into relationships and how they change" — People (3.5 out of 4 stars)
"Fresh, nuanced... Weiner wryly and sensitively shows the trade-offs we all make to maintain our relationships." —Parade
“This best-selling author proves again that she writes the best page-turners around.” – Elle
"Witty and smart" —O Magazine
“Fly Away Home is Weiner’s best offering in years. The book is well written, a page turner and timely.” —Associated Press
“The quintessential beach read!” —Columbus Dispatch
"Sharp, hysterical, thoughtful. . .Jennifer Weiner's latest treat hits the spot" —The Providence Journal
“Fly Away Home is the book to pack this summer. The latest from Jennifer Weiner has it all.” — St. Petersburg Times
"Smart and juicy" —Good Housekeeping
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Sometimes all you can do is fly away home . . .
When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician’s wife—her hair dyed and straightened, her hippie-chick wardrobe replaced by tailored knit suits. At fifty-seven, she ruefully acknowledges that her job is staying twenty pounds thinner than she was in her twenties and tending to her husband, the senator.
Lizzie, the Woodruffs’ younger daughter, is at twenty-four a recovering addict, whose mantra HALT (Hungry? Angry? Lonely? Tired?) helps her keep her life under control. Still, trouble always seems to find her. Her older sister, Diana, an emergency room physician, has everything Lizzie failed to achieve—a husband, a young son, the perfect home—and yet she’s trapped in a loveless marriage. With temptation waiting in one of the ER’s exam rooms, she finds herself craving more.
After Richard’s extramarital affair makes headlines, the three women are drawn into the painful glare of the national spotlight. Once the press conference is over, each is forced to reconsider her life, who she is and who she is meant to be.
Written with an irresistible blend of heartbreak and hilarity, Fly Away Home is an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who after a lifetime of distance finally learn to find refuge in one another.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
I'd skip this one,
This review is from: Fly Away Home (Hardcover)
I was quite disappointed with Jennifer Weiner's novel Fly Away Home. I'm not one to not finish a book, but I found it rather painful to get through. There were too many scenes describing the youngest daughter doing drugs. Overall the story just had depressing event after depressing event and yet everything turned out so well in the end. I say too good to be true.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hard to put down in the middle!,
By GS (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fly Away Home (Hardcover)
Jennifer Weiner is back to telling some amazing stories! I didn't like her last couple of titles as much as her earlier books, but the characters in this one are like more mature versions of the ones you find in Good In Bed and In Her Shoes. Loved it!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not her best,
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This review is from: Fly Away Home (Hardcover)
I have loved every Jennifer Weiner book since Good in Bed. They had sparkle, wit and a sly humour. This one has none of the previous. A few sentences that made me smile, but for the rest, the Jennifer Weiner I love wasn't there. I sense that she's trying to expand her horizons and as a writer I can appreciate that. However this book didn't go far. In fact it didn't seem to go anywhere for the longest time. This story of a mother and her two daughters and the mess their lives had become could have been so good and for awhile Ms. Weiner delivered on this promise. But the middle of the book sagged and by seven-eighths of the way I wanted to yell at the three characters to talk to each other for goodness sakes. Too much narrative and not enough of Ms. Weiner's trademark sparkling dialogue made this book seem to drag. I cared enough about the characters ( and that speaks to Ms. Weiner's skill) that I wanted them to do something, anything, other than hang around and tell us how miserable they were and how they had messed up their lives. I'm going to hold off buying her next book until I can see where she wants to go with her writing. This one was disappointing.
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