Goodnight Nobody: A Novel - Hardcover

Weiner, Jennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743470117 ISBN 13: 9780743470117

Publisher: Atria, 2005

Synopsis

Having relocated to an alienating Connecticut suburb after a mugging in her native New York City, wife and mother Kate Klein struggles to fit in with her discriminating new neighbors and undertakes a murder investigation during her children's school hours when a local mom is killed. By the author of Little Earthquakes. 350,000 first printing.

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Review

Goodnight Nobody is bestselling author Jennifer Weiner's attempt at writing a mystery, with a healthy dose of the author's chick lit sensibilities thrown in for good measure. While this Desperate Housewives meets Sex in the City murder mystery won't make readers shake in their Manolo Blahniks, it will provide the obligatory humor and compassion to which fans of Weiner's Good in Bed, In Her Shoes, and Little Earthquakes have grown accustomed.

Kate Klein is a feisty, charmingly insecure Connecticut housewife who trades in a life of late-night karaoke sing-a-longs and West Village brunches with her best friend Janie for a world of mini-vans and Mommy and Me pilates classes. Life in Upchurch, Connecticut, heats up when Kate discovers picture-perfect wife and mother Kitty Cavanaugh dead on the pickled maple hardwood floor of her recently remodeled kitchen. A former chronicler of celebrity gossip, Kate takes it upon herself to solve the mystery of Kitty's murder and the disappearance of Lexi Hagen-Holdt, another Upchurch supermom. Along the way, the mysteries and disappointments in Kate's personal life begin to unravel, including her marriage to the kind-yet-uptight Ben, and her unresolved crush on Evan McKenna, a former neighbor with whom a one-night tryst ended in disaster. Thrown in for comic relief, and perhaps to show the depth of Weiner's talents as a writer, are Kate's twin boys and adorably sophisticated 5-year old daughter Sophie ("Sophie was sitting on the toilet, applying lipstick and waiting her turn...").

Goodnight Nobody is chock full of plot twists and turns which can be overwhelming and superfluous. However, Weiner's charm and grace are usually enough to rescue readers from these moments of confusion, and reaffirm our commitment to this endearing contemporary voice. --Gisele Toueg

About the Author

Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nine books, including Good in Bed, In Her Shoes, which was made into a major motion picture, and Fly Away Home. A graduate of Princeton University, Jennifer is also the co-creator and executive producer for the ABC Family show State of Georgia. To learn more, visit www.jenniferweiner.com.

Emily Skinner has appeared in the original Broadway companies of Jekyll & Hyde, James Joyce's The Dead, The Full Monty, Dinner at Eight, and Sideshow, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award. She has performed internationally with many symphonies and can be heard vocalizing on countless musical theater CDs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atria
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743470117
• ISBN 13: 9780743470117
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384