This Is Your Life

Meg Wolitzer. Penguin Books, $7.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-14-012430-9

``With this bittersweet, engaging novel, Wolitzer again demonstrates her skill at portraying the inevitable love-hate of human relationships. Her prose is seductive, with an elegiac strain, yet there is wry humor in this tale of an obese TV comedienne and her two daughters,'' wrote PW . (Nov.)

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