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The smart one : a novel / Jennifer Close.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307596864 :
- ISBN: 0307596869 :
- ISBN: 9780385676458
- Physical Description: 339 p. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "This is a Borzoi Book"--T.p. verso. |
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| Subject: | Single women > New York > New York > Fiction. Life change events > Fiction. Adult children living with parents > Fiction. Brothers and sisters > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Castlegar Public Library.
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- 1 current hold with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Castlegar Public Library | FIC CLO (Text) | 35146001828318 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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Weezy and her husband become increasingly perplexed by life challenges that compel their first daughter to move back into her childhood room, their second daughter to cancel her wedding, and their son to become enmeshed in a relationship disaster. - Baker & Taylor
Raising her three children to be kind, smart and independent, Weezy and her husband become increasingly perplexed by life challenges that compel their first daughter to move back into her childhood room, their second daughter to cancel her wedding and their son to become enmeshed in a relationship disaster. By the author of the best-sellingGirls in White Dresses . 100,000 first printing. - Random House, Inc.
With her best-selling debut, Girls in White Dresses (An âirresistible, pitch-perfect first novelâ âMarie Claire), Jennifer Close captured friendship in those what-on-earth-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-life years of early adulthood. Now, with her sparkling new novel of parenthood and sibling rivalry, Close turns her gimlet eye to the only thing messier than friendship: family.
Weezy Coffeyâs parents had always told her she was the smart one, while her sister was the pretty one. âMaureen will marry well,â their mother said, but instead it was Weezy who married well, to a kind man and good father. Weezy often wonders if she did this on purposeâthwarting expectations just to prove her parents wrong.
But now that Weezyâs own children are adults, they havenât exactly been meeting her expectations either. Her oldest child, Martha, is thirty and living in her childhood bedroom after a spectacular career flameout. Martha now works at J.Crew, folding pants with whales embroidered on them and complaining bitterly about it. Weezyâs middle child, Claire, has broken up with her fiancé, canceled her wedding, and locked herself in her New York apartmentâleaving Weezy to deal with the caterer and florist. And her youngest, Max, is dating a college classmate named Cleo, a girl so beautiful and confident she wears her swimsuit to family dinner, leaving other members of the Coffey household blushing and stammering into their plates.
As the Coffey childrenâs various missteps drive them back to their childhood home, Weezy suddenly finds her empty nest crowded and her children in full-scale regression. Martha is moping like a teenager, Claire is stumbling home drunk in the wee hours, and Max and Cleo are skulking around the basement, guarding a secret of their own. With radiant style and a generous spirit, The Smart One is a story about the ways in which we never really grow up, and the place where we return when things go drastically awry: home.
