LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – To launch San Diego’s 22nd Annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair, a preview event will be held at 7 p.m., Thursday, October 20 with #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner, author of soon-to-be-released, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing. The event will be held at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center in the David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, California 92037. Tickets are $32 for visitors and $27 for JCC members, and include a copy Hungry Heart hot off the presses!
For fifteen years, in twelve works of fiction, Weiner has told stories about the women the world doesn’t see: Plus-size women, older women, struggling new mothers, women in search of friendship, women struggling in their marriages, women trying to find a best friend, trying to have a baby, trying to find their place in the world. Her stories have made millions of readers laugh, and cry. Most importantly, her books have made them feel less alone, less invisible. I see you, her stories say. I see you, and I am you.
This fall,Weiner is taking that message – I see you, I am you — to new heights, and a brand-new audience, by telling her own, true story in Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love and Writing (Atria Books; October 11, 2016; $27.00). This is her funniest, most candid book yet, and is already earning the best reviews of her career. In her first work of nonfiction, she takes the raw material of her personal life and spins it into a collection of essays on womanhood, as uproariously funny and moving as the best of Tina Fey, Fran Lebowitz, and Nora Ephron.
No subject is off-limits in this intimate and honest essay collection. From a lonely adolescence to love, marriage, and modern childbirth to hearing her six-year-old daughter’s use of the f-word—fat—for the first time, from her mother’s late-in-life lesbianism to her estranged father’s death, Hungry Heart is a stunningly honest, funny, heartbreaking, and ultimately redemptive memoir about hunger and humor, loving and losing, and a woman who has searched for her place in the world—and found it as a storyteller.
For tickets visit www.sdcjc.com or call the JCC Box Office at 858-362-1348.