{"id":7896,"date":"2010-08-12T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=7896"},"modified":"2010-08-06T08:32:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T14:32:46","slug":"fly-away-home-by-jennifer-weiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/fly-away-home-by-jennifer-weiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Fly Away Home<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Jennifer Weiner tells a story that seems all too familiar right now:\u00a0 a politician is caught cheating on his loyal wife of three decades.\u00a0 Sylvie, the wronged and distraught wife, isn’t sure what to do with herself, since her life has been solely about helping her husband with his political career for their entire marriage.\u00a0 This book tells the story of how she, along with her daughters Diana and Lizzie, cope with the senator’s indescretions.\u00a0 Sylvie finds solace, and unexpected company, when she decides to cope at her family’s old summer house in Connecticut.\u00a0 The story gets complicated, since Sylvie’s daughters are going through troubles of their own when the scandal breaks:\u00a0 Lizzie has just gotten through with another stint in rehab, and Diana is stuck in a loveless marriage and has responded by carrying on her own extramarital affair.<\/p>\n

What I love about Jennifer Weiner’s books is that the characters are real and relatable.\u00a0 They are flawed, and they remind you of people you know.\u00a0 This is the case with this book.\u00a0 It feels like a scandal ripped from the headlines, but with enough personality and emotion that you feel like you know Sylvie and want nothing more than to comfort her and tell her to be strong.\u00a0 But my favorite character had to be Lizzie.\u00a0 Though she struggled through a lot, she worked hard to overcome her demons and make a good life for herself and anyone else who surprisingly came along….<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>If you haven’t read them yet, I highly recommend checking out some of Jennifer Weiner’s other books, including In Her Shoes<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, which was later adapted into a hit movie<\/a><\/em><\/strong> starring Toni Collette and Cameron Diaz as sisters Rose and Maggie.\u00a0 But my personal favorite of Jennifer Weiner’s works (and the favorite of so many other women I know)\u00a0is Good In Bed<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The book is about a plus-sized woman who finds out her boyfriend is writing about her and her size\u00a0in his column (titled Good In Bed<\/em>) in a Cosmo-like magazine.\u00a0 The book is both witty and emotional, and I kind of wanted to be Cannie’s best friend by the end.\u00a0 Pick up any one of Jennifer Weiner’s books, and I bet you won’t be disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner tells a story that seems all too familiar right now:\u00a0 a politician is caught cheating on his loyal wife of three decades.\u00a0 Sylvie, the wronged and distraught wife, isn’t sure what to do with herself, since her life has been solely about helping her[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[155,1299,1300],"class_list":["post-7896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-family","tag-politicians","tag-womens-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-23m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7896"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8018,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions\/8018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}