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Certain Girls

Jodi Picocell

2008384 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2008
first published
  • 2008Atria BooksISBN 9781921470004
  • 2008Center Point Pub. · 494 pages · ENGISBN 9781602851726
  • 2008Simon & Schuster Audio · ENGISBN 9780743569866
  • 2008Atria · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780743294256

Cannie is happily married to the tall, charming diet doctor Peter Krushelevansky and has settled into a life that she finds wonderfully predictable—knitting in the front row of her daughter Joy’s drama rehearsals, volunteering at the library, and taking over-forty yoga classes with her best friend Samantha. As preparations for Joy’s bar mitzvah begin, everything seems right in Cannie’s world. Then Joy discovers the sexy and provocative novel Cannie wrote years before and suddenly finds herself faced with what she thinks is the truth about her own conception—the story her mother hid from her all her life. When Peter surprises his wife by saying he wants to have a baby, the family is forced to reconsider its history, its future, and what it means to be truly happy.

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