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In Her Shoes

A Novel

By Jennifer Weiner

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9781416503347

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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 alsoContinue

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.

Meet 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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  • The Best Reviews: Jennifer Weiner, In Her Shoes: A Novel

    "funny, poignant and dramatic family saga" She is twenty-eight years old, never held a job for more than three months, and likes to party on somebody else's dime. Maggie Feller has learning disabilities that make her feel inferior to her older sister ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • In Her Shoes

    In Her Shoes When the story opens Maggie has just lost another job, been evicted from another apartment, and her father's wife (her "step-monster," Sydelle) refuses to let her come home, so she ends up living on Rose's couch. Rose, whose life seems t ... (read full critics)

    likesbooks published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

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  • Well I cannot find any other negative reviews for this title so it must be me, but I am about to give it one!
    I am sorry to say that this is the first and last title that I will try by this author. I started it this afternoon and I just could not get on with her writing style, why I am just not ... (continue)

    Well I cannot find any other negative reviews for this title so it must be me, but I am about to give it one!
    I am sorry to say that this is the first and last title that I will try by this author. I started it this afternoon and I just could not get on with her writing style, why I am just not sure? Maybe it was a big mistake to try and read this after seeing the film? Which incidentally I enjoyed!!

    So although I cannot recommend this title I think maybe if you have not yet seen the film and enjoy ‘chick lit’ it might be Ok. Everyone else certainly seems to think so!

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    Lindyloumac said on Sep 28, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • I've gone through 1/4 of the book and found it quit boring. The writer talks about Rose & Maggie's lives now and in their young ages, going back and forth all the time.

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    Purple Rain said on Oct 9, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • It was fun to read an adult book for once. I had to remind myself a couple of times that it wasn't a YA book. It seems like so long since I read a purely adult book. Kate Anger lent me this book. I wouldn't mind reading some of her other stuff.

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    SheReads said on Mar 6, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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