博客來自從前男友在雜誌專欄寫了一篇「愛上胖女人」，把他們的性生活公開的那天起，坎妮．夏普立歐的生命就完全改變了。
十三年過去了，坎妮依然為體重掙扎，但是她以筆名出版了暢銷小說、擁有一個女兒喬依，也嫁給了迷人的醫生彼得。除了與喬依的親生父親，布魯斯．古柏曼不時發生的尷尬場景之外，坎妮的世界裡似乎一切都很美好。
喬依在準備成年禮的過程中，發現了坎妮在幾年前寫的小說，她突然得面對自她出生以來就瞞著她的故事。而當彼得告訴坎妮，他想要生一個屬於他們的小孩，這個家庭也被迫重新審視它的過去、未來，還有幸福快樂的真實意義。
Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend started chronicling their ex-sex life in the pages of a national magazine.
Now Cannie's back. After her debut novel -- a fictionalized (and highly sexualized) version of her life -- became an overnight bestseller, she dropped out of the public eye and turned to writing science fiction under a pseudonym. She's 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 bat mitzvah begin, everything seems right in Cannie's world. Then Joy discovers the 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.
Radiantly funny and disarmingly tender, with Weiner's whip-smart dialogue and sharp observations of modern life, Certain Girls is an unforgettable story about love, loss, and the enduring bonds of family.
★本書中譯版《那些女孩》由馥林文化出版。
作者簡介
珍妮佛．韋納Jennifer Weiner
出生於路易斯安那州，在學期間即得過普林斯頓大學美國詩人獎，書中處處可見其詩詞寫作的才華。目前專職於寫作，與丈夫亞當、女兒露西及愛犬維多住在費城。
韋納的故事主角多為堅強、聰穎的女性，也都和我們一樣：嫌自己不夠完美、過分在意身上的那幾斤肉，但是韋納讓她們在這個世界裡為自己開創了一個小天地。她將真實生活中的心碎分手，寫成了她的第一本小說《慾望單人床》，透過一個體型豐滿的女主角被前男友公開他們的性生活開始，為都會小說塑造出了一股療癒風。
《那些女孩》是《慾望單人床》的續集，重新造訪書中女主角十三年後的生活。溫柔細膩的筆法，還有韋納一貫的機智對話，對現代生活的敏銳觀察，《那些女孩》是一個關於愛，失去，親人之間恆久的情感連結；一個讓人難忘的故事。
Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten books, including Good in Bed, In Her Shoes, which was made into a major motion picture, and Then Came You. She was the co-creator and co-executive producer of the ABC Family sitcom State of Georgia, which aired in 2011. She lives with her family in Philadelphia. To learn more, visit JenniferWeiner.com.
