The Smart One

· Sold by Vintage
3.9
9 reviews
Ebook
352
Pages
Eligible

About this ebook

From the bestselling author of Girls in White Dresses, this funny and tender novel is “an engaging exploration of a thoroughly modern family dynamic” (People) and the ways in which we never really grow up, and the people we turn to when things go drastically wrong.

The Coffey siblings are having a rough year. Martha is thirty and working at J. Crew after a spectacular career flameout; Claire has broken up with her fiancé and locked herself in her New York apartment until her bank account looks as grim as her mood; and the baby of the family, Max, is dating a knockout classmate named Cleo and keeping a very big, very life-altering secret. The only solution—for all of them—is to move back home.

But things aren’t so easy the second time around, for them or for their mother, Weezy. Martha and Claire have regressed to fighting over the shared bathroom, Weezy can’t quite bring herself to stop planning Claire’s thwarted wedding, and Max and Cleo are exchanging secretive whispers in the basement.

Ratings and reviews

3.9
9 reviews
Addivia Karina
October 10, 2015
I always enjoy Close's writing. Even this book has no much storyline but I appreciate it and quite enjoying Close's writing.
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Anne Moore
February 26, 2014
I really enjoyed this book. I wanted to stick with all the characters to see how their lives unfolded to the very end. I look forward to reading Jennifer's next book.
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Lyne Alston
February 9, 2019
I kept waiting for it to get better...it never did.
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About the author

Jennifer Close is the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses. Born and raised on the North Shore of Chicago, she is a graduate of Boston College and received her MFA in fiction writing from the New School in 2005. She worked in New York in magazines for many years. She now lives in Washington, DC, and teaches creative writing at George Washington University.

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