The Smart One
The Coffey siblings are having a rough year. Martha is thirty and working at J. Crew after a spectacular career flameout; Claire has broken up with her fiancé and locked herself in her New York apartment until her bank account looks as grim as her mood; and the baby of the family, Max, is dating...
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The Coffey siblings are having a rough year. Martha is thirty and working at J. Crew after a spectacular career flameout; Claire has broken up with her fiancé and locked herself in her New York apartment until her bank account looks as grim as her mood; and the baby of the family, Max, is dating a knockout classmate named Cleo and keeping a very big, very life-altering secret. The only solution—for all of them—is to move back home. But things aren’t so easy the second time around, for them or for their mother, Weezy. Martha and Claire have regressed to fighting over the shared bathroom, Weezy can’t quite bring herself to stop planning Claire’s thwarted wedding, and Max and Cleo are exchanging secretive whispers in the basement. Jennifer Close’s funny and tender follow-up to her bestselling debut novel is a story about the ways in which we never really grow up, and the people we turn to when things go drastically wrong: family.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307743701 (0307743705)
Publish date: July 16th 2013
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Many thanks to Vintage for providing a copy of this book for review. Originally Posted on Liz Loves Books and Melissa Says Jump. Mum's blog and Daughter's blog :) http://lizlovesbooks.com/lizlovesbooks/ http://melissasaysjump.wordpress.com/ Weezy Coffey’s parents had always told her she ...
I keep debating on whether to give this two or three stars. Ultimately I decided to give it three. I enjoyed following all the characters except for Martha. Martha is so annoying. Is it bad that I wished she would get hit by a bus? She almost ruined the book for me. Luckily I cared enough about the ...
I previously read Jennifer Close's Girls in White Dresses (Vintage Contemporaries) and loved it and was happy to pick up her second novel, "The Smart One"."The Smart One" focuses on the Coffey family living in Philadelphia. The matriarch, Weezy Coffey and her husband Will have raised three children,...
It always comes as a shock when I’m reading a book about a twentysomething careening towards her thirties and the author makes a cultural reference to the character’s childhood — in this case, the Babysitter’s Club — and I realize that I’m essentially the same age as the character.I’m not just growi...
Just won this from the Devourer of books blog. Woo hoo!