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HUNGRY HEART Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing CONTACT: Lisa Sciambra, Deputy Director of Publicity 212-698-7649 [email protected] HUNGRY HEART Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing A memoir by JENNIFER WEINER "In this generous, entertaining memoir, Weiner, known for Her plus sized Heroines, autHentic voice, and hilarious one liners, offers a front row seat to the drama of her life. Weiner doggedly pursues her dream of becoming a writer who speaks to women's lives, insisting—and proving—that women's stories matter." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Hungry Heart is a fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave book. With candor, wit, and insigHt, Jennifer Weiner writes beautifully about Her darkest struggles and brigHtest triumpHs, about growing up and getting on witH it, about gaining and losing, about Herself and also—ultimately—about all of us. I was spellbound by Hungry Heart from tHe first page to tHe last.” — Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild "I'm mad Jennifer's Weiner's first book of essays is as wonderful as her fiction. You will love tHis book and wisH she was your friend." — Mindy Kaling, author of Why Not Me? “Haven't we all wondered exactly How tHe many-splendored Jennifer Weiner became so many-splendored? This candid, poignant, and very funny memoir tells all, and I'm confident otHer readers will be as fascinated and moved by it as I was.” — Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Eligible “Weiner lays Her Heart bare in tHis memoir, wHicH is insightful and affecting and affirms eXactly why she is so popular—she is gifted in tHe ability to write Honestly and easily.” — Booklist For fifteen years, in twelve works of fiction, Jennifer Weiner Has told stories about the women the world doesn’t see. Plus-size women. Older women. Struggling new mothers. Women in searcH of friendsHip, women struggling in their marriages, women trying to find a best friend, trying to Have a baby, trying to find their place in the world. Her stories Have made millions of readers laugH, and cry. Most importantly, Her books Have made them feel less alone, less invisible. I see you, Her stories say. I see you, and I am you. THis fall, Jennifer Weiner is taking that message – I see you, I am you -- to new HeigHts, and a brand- new audience, by telling Her own, true story in HUNGRY HEART: Adventures in Life, Love and Writing (Atria Books; October 11, 2016; $27.00). THis is Jennifer’s funniest, most candid book yet, and is already earning the best reviews of Her career. Her first work of nonfiction, sHe takes the raw stuff of Her personal life and spins it into a collection of essays on womanHood as uproariously funny and moving as the best of Tina Fey, Fran Lebowitz, and Nora EpHron. No subject is off-limits in this intimate and Honest essay collection. From a lonely adolescence to love, marriage, and modern cHildbirth to Hearing Her siX-year-old daugHter’s use of the f-word—fat—for the first time, from Her mother’s late-in-life lesbianism to Her estranged father’s death, HUNGRY HEART is a stunningly Honest, funny, Heartbreaking, and ultimately redemptive memoir about Hunger and Humor, loving and losing, and a woman wHo searcHed for Her place in the world—and found it as a storyteller. Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of fourteen books. A graduate of Princeton University and contributor to the New York Times Opinion section, Jennifer lives with Her family in PHiladelpHia. And coming this September is THE LITTLEST BIGFOOT, the first book in Jen’s new middle-grade trilogy, wHicH Publisher's Weekly Has already praised as “a winning debut...well- drawn cHaracters, HigH comedy and an open-ended finale will leave readers eager for the neXt installment." For more information, visit JenniferWeiner.com. I look forward to discussing the possibility of a review or interview with Jennifer Weiner. Sincerely, Lisa Sciambra, Deputy Director of Publicity Atria Books is an imprint of Simon & Schuster, a part of CBS Corporation. Simon & Schuster is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for consumers of all ages, across all printed, electronic, and audio formats. Its divisions include Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing, Simon& Schuster Children’s Publishing, Simon & Schuster Audio, Simon & Schuster Online, and international companies in Australia, Canada, India and the United Kingdom. For more information about Atria, visit our website at atria-books.com About Jennifer Weiner A #1 New York Times bestselling author, Jennifer Weiner’s books have spent over five years on the New York Times bestseller list with over thirteen million copies in print in thirty-siX countries. She is tHe autHor of the novels Good in Bed (2001); In Her Shoes(2002), wHicH was turned into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and SHirley MacLaine; Little Earthquakes (2004); Goodnight Nobody (2005); the sHort story collection The Guy Not Taken (2006); Certain Girls (2008); Best Friends Forever (2009); Fly Away Home (2010); Then Came You(2011); The Next Best Thing (2012); All Fall Down (2014), and Who Do You Love (2015). This Fall, Atria Books will publisH Her first work of nonfiction, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing, and Aladdin Books will publisH The Littlest Bigfoot, tHe first book in a middle-grade trilogy about two lonely girls – one human, one Bigfoot – and tHe hidden world tHat tHey come togetHer to protect. Jennifer Weiner grew up in Connecticut and graduated witH a degree in EnglisH literature from Princeton University. SHe worked as a newspaper reporter in central Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and PHiladelpHia, where sHe wrote a series of popular columns for The Philadelphia InQuirer. Weiner is now a Host of Her own People magazine web series, The Pie, and Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times Op-Ed and Sunday Review. Weiner’s recent Times contributions – “The Snobs and Me,” “The Love Story Primary,” “When Can Women Stop Trying to Look Perfect?,” “The Year of tHe Toilet,” “Longing for tHe Innocence of Playboy,” “Miss America, My Guilty Pleasure,” “The AsHley Madison Hack SHows We’re Too Dumb to CHeat” “‘Hello MotHer, Hello DaugHter’: TeXts of Misery from Camp,” "The Pressure to Look Good," “The Cost of Buying Someone’s Soul. Or Tweets,” “All Grown Up and In Charge of the Seder,” “Another Thing to Hate About Ourselves,” “Mean Girls in tHe Retirement Home,” and “All Blurbed Out”– have risen to tHe top of tHe “most emailed” lists and have been picked up by newspapers and media outlets across the world. Weiner’s #weartHeswimsuit movement resulted witH national news coverage on GMA as well as many articles supporting her body positive call to action for women to post tHeir swimsuit selfies. WitH over 119,000 fans on Facebook and 130,000 followers on Twitter, Weiner was recently listed as a part of tHe “Twitter Brain Trust” by EW and appeared on Time magazine’s list of “140 Best Twitter Feeds,” wHicH hailed her “must-read” live “BacHelor” tweets, noting that “rarely Has there been sucH an ideal pairing of material and writer.” Forbes magazine ranked Her second on tHeir list of “25 Working Moms to Follow on Twitter”: “Tune in for Hilarious sHards of brilliance.” A recent New Yorker profile demonstrated how much influence tHis “unlikely feminist enforcer” Has Had on Her culture, celebrating Weiner’s “lively public discussion about the reception and consumption of fiction written by women.” Weiner Has appeared on numerous national television programs, including GMA, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, and CBS Sunday Morning, and has been publisHed in dozens of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Seventeen, Redbook, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and Good Housekeeping. Most of Her essays are featured on Her website, wHere sHe started Her blog in 2002. Jennifer can also be found on Facebook, and, in real life, PHiladelpHia, wHere sHe lives with Her family. .
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