THE GRIFFIN SISTERS’ GREATEST HITS
“A shimmering story about music, motherhood,
sisterhood and the dreams we chase.”
— Woman's World
“Weiner is at her best when she's writing about sisters, and her
latest (after The Breakaway, 2023) features a memorable pair.
...This is an irresistible, multigenerational tale from a master
of her craft.”
— Booklist, starred review
“Irresistible. [Weiner] breathes new life into the love triangle trope and offers a nuanced view of sisterhood’s complexities. [Her] fans will be delighted.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Weiner deftly explores the pop landscape of the early 2000s. Zoe and Cassie are both realistic and flawed characters, each with their own challenges. There’s a compelling and dramatic love triangle here, too, but the true love story is between two sisters and their
music. A heartfelt look at sisterhood, forgiveness, and the courage it takes to follow your dreams.”
— Kirkus Reviews
Jennifer Weiner is a #1 New York Times bestselling author whose books have spent over five years on the New York Times bestseller list, with more than 11 million copies in print in 36 countries. She is the author of the novels Good in Bed (2001); In Her Shoes (2002), which was turned into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine; Little Earthquakes (2004); Goodnight Nobody (2005); the short story collection The Guy Not Taken (2006); Certain Girls (2008); Best Friends Forever (2009); Fly Away Home (2010); Then Came You (2011); The Next Best Thing (2012); All Fall Down (2014); Who Do You Love (2015); Mrs. Everything (2019); Big Summer (2020); That Summer (2021); The Summer Place (2022); Golden Hills (2023); The Breakaway (2024); and The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits (forthcoming 2025) .
She is also the author of The Littlest Bigfoot middle-grade trilogy, nd The Bigfoot Queen (2023). Her nonfiction collectioThe Littlest Bigfoot (2016) and Little Bigfoot, Big City (2017), an Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing (2016), was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
Her books have consistently earned critical raves, which recognize her significance in the literary world and contemporary culture. The Washington Post wrote that “Weiner has made a major literary career out of writing engrossing popular novels that take women seriously” and Refinery29 deemed her “the master of richly told page-turners about complicated and likable women.” Over the course of more than two decades, her books have considered the complex relationships between sisters, best friends, mothers, and daughters; body image issues and the challenges of being a plus-size woman; romance; motherhood and how difficult it can be; the rewards and costs of careers; infidelity and sex scandals; infertility and gestational surrogacy; addiction and substance abuse; the social landscape of modern America; the bittersweet pleasures of summer places; the nature of creativity and artistic achievement; the power of forgiveness and reconciliation; and, above all, the way the world treats—and mistreats—women.
Her books are funny and enjoyable, as well as insightful and compelling. People called In Her Shoes, for example, “an entertaining romp through family battles and toxic relationships” and USA Today said it “will make you laugh and possibly cry.” The New York Times wrote about Goodnight Nobody, “She’s giving ‘chick lit’ a good name. She writes characters who could be anyone’s best friends, and in this book, she has a funny, malicious, Desperate Housewives eye for suburban life.” The Tampa Tribune said Little Earthquakes “will charm and delight readers with its mix of heartbreak and humor.”
In recent years, critics described Big Summer as
The Breakaway was called “sexy and suspenseful and so much fun” (The New York
Times); “incredibly fun . . . a lovely, compulsively readable story about finding your path and believing in your own worth” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review);
“a winning combination of a light read with serious emotional depth, the very mix Weiner's many fans have come to expect from her.
Weiner’s annual summer release is a welcome (and highly anticipated) treat for readers of relatable relationship fiction”
(Booklist, starred review)
Jennifer uses her social media platform to amplify
women's voices and speak on topics including self-esteem, body positivity, and the way books by women are reviewed and consumed. Her essays have topped the list of trending online articles in The New York Times, where she writes frequently for the Opinion
section. A New Yorker profile called her an “unlikely feminist enforcer” and celebrated her “lively public discussion about the reception and consumption of fiction written by women.”
She has appeared on many national television programs, including The Today
Show and Good Morning America, and, as herself, on Younger. Jennifer’s work has been published in
dozens of newspapers and magazines in addition to The New York Times, including Seventeen, Redbook, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Allure, Ladies Home Journal, Time and Good Housekeeping.
In 2020, the Arts and Business Council of Greater Philadelphia recognized Jennifer with the Anne D’Harnoncourt Award for Artistic Excellence. In 2022, she was named the 114th Anniversary Celebration Honoree by Philadelphia’s Settlement Music School, where she is a board member at the Mary Louise Curtis Branch. In 2024, Philadelphia Magazine included Weiner in their 150 most influential people in Philly list.
Jennifer grew up in Connecticut and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in English literature from Princeton University in 1991. Before publishing her first novel, she worked as a newspaper reporter in central Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Philadelphia, where she was a feature writer and columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Today, she can be found on Facebook, Instagram, Threads and TikTok and, in real life, in Philadelphia, where she lives with her family.
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PRAISE FOR JENNIFER WEINER’S
PREVIOUS NOVELS
The Breakaway
“Sexy and suspenseful and so much fun, even as it asks us to imagine lives unconstrained by convention or the Supreme Court.” — The New York Times
“A fun, smart, and a powerful reminder to follow your own path.” — The Skimm
"Incredibly fun . . . A lovely, compulsively readable story about finding your path and believing in your own worth.” — Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“This is a winning combination of a light read with serious emotional depth, the very mix Weiner's many fans have come to expect from her. Weiner’s annual summer release is a welcome (and highly anticipated) treat for readers of relatable relationship fiction.” — Booklist, starred review
Big Summer
“Sexy and satisfying. . . Observant, self-aware, and very funny, Big Summer will delight Jennifer Weiner’s many fans and could be just the absorbing take-me-away read so many of us need right now.” — USA Today
“It's the beach read to end all beach reads." — Entertainment Weekly
“It’s deliciously fun: frothy entertainment with surprising depth. Big Summer is big fun, and then some. It's empowering and surprising—a reminder to put down the phone and enjoy each moment for what it is, rather than what it could look like on Instagram.” — The Washington Post
Jennifer Weiner—the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of nineteen previous novels including The Breakaway, Big Summer, and Good in Bed— tells an affecting and absorbing tale about the complicated ties between two sisters, the tragedy that divides them, and the power of love and forgiveness, set within the glamorous and gritty world of pop music, in the present and over the past two decades, in THE GRIFFIN SISTERS’ GREATEST HITS (William Morrow; ISBN 978-0-06-334244-6; Hardcover $30.00; on sale April 8, 2025).
Zoe and Cassie Grossberg grow up in working-class Philadelphia in the 1990s as opposites. Beautiful and popular, Zoe has dreamed of becoming a pop star since childhood, despite her minimal talent. Plus-size, plain and awkward, Cassie is immensely gifted but has been mercilessly bullied because of her weight and prefers to hide in the background.
On the cusp of adulthood, Zoe persuades Cassie to enter a local battle of the bands, where they catch the attention of a hungry music executive. After he pairs them with the brilliant young songwriter and guitarist Russell D’Angelo, who has instant artistic and personal chemistry with Cassie, they quickly shoot to the heights of pop stardom as The Griffin Sisters. With their soulful, sensitive songs, Zoe’s beauty and charisma and Cassie’s relatable appearance and extraordinary voice, the band strikes a particular chord with young women.
Then a shocking tragedy breaks up the band and shatters Zoe and Cassie’s relationship.
Twenty years later, after a few brief, disastrous attempts to make it as a solo artist, Zoe’s leading the life of a married mother in the suburbs, doing her best to fit in and pretend she’s no different than the other moms. Cassie, meanwhile, has gone completely off the grid, settling in a remote corner of Alaska, denying herself the comfort of family, guarding her anonymity and avoiding the past.
While Cassie and Zoe want to forget they were ever famous, Zoe’s daughter, Cherry, will do anything to break into the music business – with or without her mother’s help. Blessed with a talent that rivals her aunt’s, growing up with a mother who doesn’t want her anywhere near the industry, Cherry’s had to scrounge for every scrap of information about The Griffin Sisters, and the aunt she’s never met. After making the finals of a reality tv singing competition, Cherry goes on a hunt to find Cassie….and the truth about the band’s breakup. As her quest unfolds, all three women must confront the consequences of their own choices, the damage done by the music industry, and the pain they’ve caused each other.
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