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    Mrs. Everything: A Novel
    Mrs. Everything: A Novel
    Mrs. Everything: A Novel
    Audiobook16 hours

    Mrs. Everything: A Novel

    Written by Jennifer Weiner

    Narrated by Ari Graynor and Beth Malone

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    In this instant New York Times bestseller and “multigenerational narrative that’s nothing short of brilliant” (People), two sisters’ lives from the 1950s to the present are explored as they struggle to find their places—and be true to themselves—in a rapidly evolving world from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner.

    Jo and Bethie Kaufman were born into a world full of promise.

    Growing up in 1950s Detroit, they live in a perfect “Dick and Jane” house, where their roles in the family are clearly defined. Jo is the tomboy, the bookish rebel with a passion to make the world more fair; Bethie is the pretty, feminine good girl, a would-be star who enjoys the power her beauty confers and dreams of a traditional life.

    But the truth ends up looking different from what the girls imagined. Jo and Bethie survive traumas and tragedies. As their lives unfold against the background of free love and Vietnam, Woodstock and women’s lib, Bethie becomes an adventure-loving wild child who dives headlong into the counterculture and is up for anything (except settling down). Meanwhile, Jo becomes a proper young mother in Connecticut, a witness to the changing world instead of a participant. Neither woman inhabits the world she dreams of, nor has a life that feels authentic or brings her joy. Is it too late for the women to finally stake a claim on happily ever after?

    In “her most sprawling and intensely personal novel to date” (Entertainment Weekly), Jennifer Weiner tells a “simply unputdownable” (Good Housekeeping) story of two sisters who, with their different dreams and different paths, offer answers to the question: How should a woman be in the world?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJun 11, 2019
    ISBN9781508251804
    Author

    Jennifer Weiner

    Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one books, including The Summer Place, That Summer, Big Summer, Mrs. Everything, In Her Shoes, Good in Bed, and a memoir in essays, Hungry Heart. She has appeared on many national television programs, including Today and Good Morning America, and her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, among other newspapers and magazines. Jennifer lives with her family in Philadelphia. Visit her online at JenniferWeiner.com.

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    • 5/5
      Emotional roller coaster at best! Very good read many mothers with daughters can relate to the worries and hardships these women went through. The author has a way of placing the reader right in the scene with the characters.
    • 4/5
      I think the book started out pretty slow, so that's why I rated it 4 out of 5 instead of 5 out of 5. I am someone who enjoys a good life story, and felt like this book gave me exactly that. The book spends its entirety flipping between Bethie and Jo and giving of snippets of their lives and each stage of life. This book will have you feeling, angry, sad and happy.
    • 5/5
      This book gave a lot of perspective. I really enjoyed it!
    • 4/5
      The narrators were spectacular!!! The story so real, beautiful message!
    • 5/5
      Great book. Loved it. Jennifer seiner is a author I never grow tired of
    • 5/5
      Amazing book!! Beautiful story about being a woman and a sister.
    • 5/5
      Great book! Certainly kept me guessing! In fact there were times when I let out an audible gasp!
    • 1/5
      Not for me ! I have loved books by this author in the past, but this one was just not for me.
    • 5/5
      Very good story! I really enjoyed this book! Great story lime!
    • 4/5
      I know when my co-worker was a quarter of the way through with this book she wasn’t enjoying it much, but liked Jo as a character. At first I want sure where the book was going, but, by the end, I grew to love many of the characters and see a bigger picture painted by the author about women in the last few generations and the changes that have and haven’t happened. I didn’t always like her style of writing and sometimes felt certain descriptions or pains to give full names to characters who only appeared once made certain sections harder to get through. But, the overall story of these women was well worth the read. Even though most of the actions that the characters took or where acted upon them are not ones I’ve experienced, I still was able to relate to they types or emotions they experienced and the ups and downs that life can take you on. Though, I would be curious to hear if people of the demographics of the main characters could relate. Were the characters pretty typical American Jews for the generations they represented? How about people from that generation who are LGBTQ?
    • 5/5
      Get passed the beginning and keep going! Great book about family and social events takes you on a journey back in time and to present.
    • 5/5
      The Character development, the witty writing, the touching relationships. I felt like I knew the sisters and could relate to many of their experiences both good and bad. Such a tender, special book. What a gifted author Jennifer is!
    • 5/5
      Such a good book. Jennifer knows how to wrap me up in her characters. This one got me good.
    • 5/5
      This book was just amazing, I had a huge love and hate relationship with the sisters but as they get older I started t ok l to love them and understand their struggles and really relate to them, you wknt be disappointed with this one.
    • 3/5
      This book was entertaining but a bit trite. And a bit long.
    • 5/5
      Great development of realistic characters. Not much happens, but one is drown into the strong atmosphere of the book. One of those readings which leave it's taste for a long time.
    • 3/5
      Very long and not a lot happened. At times hard to continue with, but still some good character arcs
    • 4/5
      Mrs. Everything is one of those books I chose to read because of the time period - two sisters growing up around the same time I did (they were "born" a few years before me). They grew up in turbulent times, and in part because of those times they ended up leading very different lives. When you put their lives together, the encompass so much of what so many women experienced during the 60s and beyond. Because I am around their age, some of the timing threw me a bit. There were definitely some anachronisms - the early 60s were much different from the late 60s and early 70s, and sometimes Weiner's 1962 was much more like the real-life 1969 than 1962. But overall I enjoyed the stories of Jo and Bethie, the two very flawed yet relatable sisters at the heart of the book.
      My thanks to Netgalley and Atria Books for providing a copy for an unbiased review.
    • 5/5
      Best book I’ve “read” in a long time. The narrators were perfect. I was engaged in each twist and turn of their lives. Moved me to tears.
    • 5/5
      Richly detailed and evocative multi-generational character study of four generations of women.
    • 5/5
      This was a great listen. Didn’t want it to be over! By the end of the book you feel like you know the whole family.
    • 5/5
      God! The feels! I think that many here who have siblings will be able to relate.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic book! I listened to the audio and loved it . Another masterpiece from Jennifer Weiner.
    • 4/5
      I'm a sucker for these multi-generational family sagas. There was one glaring Detroit error in the book. Some of the characters were taking a trip to Windsor and were said to be taking the tunnel under Lake Erie. The tunnel from Detroit to Windsor, of course, goes under the Detroit River.
    • 4/5
      Captivating story where I found myself laughing and crying and really getting to know the character fully. Sometimes I thought the book talked about too many different social problems, however the way of telling the story always brought me back. All in all I genuinly enjoyed listening and even learning a little from this book.
    • 5/5
      Highly recommend this for any woman who feels she has lost herself along the way in life’s choices...and whose sisters or girlfriends reminded her, and brought her back to herself...
    • 5/5
      I love this book, it touched my soul. The narration is incredible.
    • 5/5
      Love Jennifer Weiner and this may be my favorite yet!
    • 3/5
      Ok, but I felt like the author was checking off a list of women’s history milestones, rather than telling a compelling story. I finished it quickly because I just wanted it to be over.

      This is probably the last book I’ll read by Jennifer Weiner.
    • 4/5
      I listened to this audiobook which had two narrators. That worked well as there are two sisters who are quite different so they really needed different voices.The two sisters are Jo and Bethie Kaufman. Their father died when they were quite young and their mother struggles to make ends meet which means the girls are quite often left on their own. Jo realizes that she is attracted to girls, not boys, while still in school and she has a relationship with a friend in high school. Bethie is more feminine but struggles with her weight and body issues. While Jo caves in to societal pressures to get married and have children, Bethie becomes involved with drugs and the alternate lifestyles of the 60s. When Jo is living in suburbia, Bethie is living in a commune. They care for each other but sometimes can't understand how the other thinks. As time passes each of them accepts their own realities and they each find a satisfying relationship. They even come to terms with their mother before she dies.It wasn't until I read some online reviews that I realized that the two sisters share the names of two of the sisters in Little Women. To me, that's all they share in common but I suppose that if Little Women had been written in the 21st century it might have turned out to have some similarities to this book.