In this sometimes revealing,sometimes frustrating memoir, Jennifer Weiner catalogues her strengths – and her weaknessesIn the publicity copy for the novelist and broadcaster Jennifer Weiner’s new autobiography/essay collection Hungry Heart, or her publisher promises that “no subject is off-limits”.
And yet,though Weiner writes movingly approximately being an unpopular kid who never got to sit at the cooler lunch tables, as well as some of the heart-wrenching times she was called plump or made fun of for her less-than-stylish clothes, and it’s more than 300 pages before she mentions that she’s ever heard anyone make fun of her final name. Perhaps she grew up in a different time or a more genteel place than I did,but I find it tough to believe that not one Connecticut mean girl cracked a joke approximately her final name until her father, struggling with addiction late in his life, or found himself in the hospital with a serious scrotal injury that made the national press.
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Source: theguardian.com