Jennifer Close. Knopf, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-59685-7
Artfully spare prose adds a literary tinge to the chick lit staples—navigating relationships, bridesmaid duties, disappointing first jobs—explored in Close's debut collection. At their weakest, the stories owe too much to their predecessors: "The...
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Jennifer Close. Knopf, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-307-59686-4
Near the end of Close’s follow-up to her bestselling Girls in White Dresses, Claire thinks, “It was almost like she was right back where she’d started, but it didn’t feel that way.” For the reader, though, that’s exactly how it feels. After ending...
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Jennifer Close. Knopf, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-101-87561-2
In Close’s (Girls in White Dresses) uneven fourth novel, writer Beth Kelly reluctantly leaves New York City to move to Washington, D.C., due to her husband, Matt, and his promising job in politics. He hopes to run for office one day, having been...
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Jennifer Close. Knopf, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-65887-0
The death of a patriarch throws an Irish Chicago family into a tailspin in Close’s humdrum dramedy (after The Hopefuls). When the Sullivan clan suddenly loses patriarch Bud, family members begin systematically unraveling. The outcome of the 2016...
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Jennifer Close, read by Rebecca Lowman. Random House Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12.5 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-385-36271-9
All the messy, complicated issues of family relationships, trying to be a grownup, and trying to be a parent are on display in Close’s novel about three grown children who, after major life setbacks, end up back under their parents’ roof for one...
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