In the novel, TV sitcoms – particularly reruns of The Golden Girls – got Ruth and her grandmother through years of painful surgeries to repair Ruth's shattered body. Next Best's heroine is Ruth Saunders, who has lived with her grandmother since Ruth's parents were killed in a car wreck, leaving Ruth with a scarred face and psyche. But The Next Best Thing isn't on a par with Good in Bed or In Her Shoes. She has chronicled the love lives of Generation X as a reporter and as a novelist, and her confessional, clever takes on relationships resonate with women of all ages. Jennifer Weiner is a dynamo of a writer: witty and engaging with a series of best-selling novels, one of which inspired a movie, and a popular blog about the reality TV show The Bachelor.
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