All Fall Down: A Novel
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781451617788 (145161778X)
ASIN: 145161778X
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Not too close-to-home, I was able to enjoy this.Library copy
All Fall Down by Jennifer WeinerAlicia Wice has a full plate-taking care of her ailing aging parents, married and have a teen daughter and working.She reads a magazine article and she discovers she is addicted to painkillers, pops them like breath mints. Then others find out and intervene.The rest i...
I used to really really love Jennifer Weiner's books. I thought that In Her Shoes was wonderful (and thought the movie version did not do the book version justice) and that Good in Bed was awesome and heartbreaking at the same time. Then I don't know what happened. I read Goodnight Nobody and just c...
What a huge let down. I was so psyched to read this book about a soccer mom dealing with prescription drug addiction. As I have close personal experience on the subject and also having read Jennifer Weiner's other books, my hopes were high. Unfortunately, this read like a pamphlet for opiate addicti...
Out for the day with her daughter, our protagonist encounters a homeless woman about her own age. A few minutes later, on their way to suburbia, she thinks: I was a world away from the woman we'd seen. That woman -- she was what addiction looked like. Not me. Not me. And that, my friends, is what...
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