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 In Her Shoes - Jennifer Weiner
 In Her Shoes - Jennifer Weiner ... dyslexic little sister who knows how to get anything she wants--but not how to keep it. She felt as if somewhere between the ages of fourteen and sixteen she'd walked off the edge of a cliff and had been falling ever since. Rose is the plump, practical, responsible older sister who knows about law but not much about her own happiness: What did she like, besides shoes, and Jim, and foods that were bad for her? When Maggie's latest eviction lands her in Rose's apartment, and Maggie insults Rose by seducing one of her sister's rare boyfriends, what follows is a chain of events by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. Embarrassed Rose evicts Maggie and begins a work sabbatical leading to a new livelihood and way of living. Maggie flees and runs away to Princeton.Newest Review: ... her any more either. Maggie treats Rose's home like a halfway house, making a mess, eating her food, wearing her brand new ... more ... shoes that she hadn't even opened out of boxes without paying any money towards rent! Rose is trying to encourage Maggie to get a job and start paying her way a bit, but Maggie wants to be an actress and so doesn't want just any job.
Things go from bad to worse for them when Maggie goes way over the line one day and does something which is totally unforgivable, Rose arrives home and goes mad. She can't believe her own sister would do something so terrible, and so throws her out in the street.
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In Her Shoes - Jennifer Weiner (974 words)
by missy0303 - written on 08/04/06 (Very useful, 207 readings)
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IN HER SHOES - JENNIFER WEINER This is the book which sparked off the 2005 movie of the same name that I've yet to see. It's about two sisters who couldn't be any more different to each other, in looks and in personalities! Their mother died when they were very young and their dad remarried a right bitch of a stepmother, Sydelle. Rose Feller is 30, a successful lawyer with a nice apartment, she isn't exactly Miss Slim, and wears rather dowdy clothes and has no real sense of fashion, except when it comes to her rather extensive shoe collection! She has never really been all that popular with guys until she meets Jim, a partner at her law ...
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