With her best-selling debut, Girls in White Dresses (An â‚¬Å“irresistible, pitch-perfect first novelâ‚¬Â â‚¬"Marie Claire), Jennifer Close captured friendship in those

The Smart One

With her best-selling debut, Girls in White Dresses (An â‚¬Å“irresistible, pitch-perfect first novelâ‚¬Â â‚¬"Marie 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 Coffeyâ‚¬s parents had always told her she was the smart one, while her sister was the pretty one. â‚¬Å“Maureen will marry well,â‚¬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 purposeâ‚¬"thwarting expectations just to prove her parents wrong.

But now that Weezyâ‚¬s own children are adults, they havenâ‚¬t 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. Weezyâ‚¬s middle child, Claire, has broken up with her fiancÂ©, canceled her wedding, and locked herself in her New York apartmentâ‚¬"leaving 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 childrenâ‚¬s 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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2013-04-02
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307596864

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2013-04-02
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780307596864

The Smart One

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