The Smart One

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The Smart One

With her best-selling debut, Girls in White Dresses (An â€œirresistible, pitch-perfect first novelâ€ 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€œMaureen will marry well,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 fiancÃ©, 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.

This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.

Country	USA
Author	Jennifer Close
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780307962324
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Vintage
Manufacturer	Vintage
NumberOfPages	434
PublicationDate	2013-04-02
Publisher	Vintage
ReleaseDate	2013-04-02
Studio	Vintage

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