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"Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She becomes a late night talk show punchline; she is slut shamed, labeled as fat and ugly, and considered a blight on politics in general. How does one go on after this? In Aviva's case, she sees no way out but to change her name and move to a remote town in Maine. She tries to start over as a wedding planner, to be smarter about her life, and to raise her daughter to be strong and confident. But when, at the urging of others, she decides to run for public office herself, that long ago mistake trails her via the Internet like a scarlet A. For in our age, Google guarantees that the past is never, ever, truly past, that everything you've done will live on for everyone to know about for all eternity. And it's only a matter of time until Aviva's daughter, Ruby, finds out who her mother was, and is, and must decide whether she can still respect her. Following three generations of women, plus the wife of the Congressman, YOUNG JANE YOUNG is a sympathetic, smart, funny, and very moving novel about what it means to be a woman of any age. Told in varying voices and emails and even a Choose Your Own Adventure section, it captures not just the mood of our recent highly charged political season, but also the double standards alive and well in every aspect of life for women"--… (more)
this was fine.. but it didn't need to more than that for me! while i didn't read this poolside or on the beach, this would be a great vacation book. kept my interest without being too much for a light read. this book was funny. i liked this book best when it was funny rather than when it was trying to be thought-provoking and clever. the writing was easy flowing and engaging. Gabrielle Zevin lays it all out on the line for us to examine.. the double standards, misogyny, how a woman can be torn apart in the public eye. how a famous politician/married man moves on after his major caught embarrassment scandal... etc. the women in this novel have flaws and like them or not we at least understand them. i hope for people who have really lived through these experiences are now laughing too. forgive and move on ( )
What happens to the intern in an intern/politician sex scandal? How does it happen in the first place and how does she course correct her life afterwards?
Young Jane Young takes a look at this scenario from the POV of the intern, her Mom, her child and the wife of the politician.
I found it an interesting and funny book and not too taxing. Another one of label as a good beach book. ( )
I really loved this book until it ended and left me hanging. I wish there was one more chapter that wrapped everything up and I didn’t have to use my imagination. ( )
My dear friend Roz Horowitz met her new husband online dating, and Roz is three years older and fifty pounds heavier than I am, and people have said that she is generally not as well preserved, and so I thought I would try it even though I avoid going online too much.
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I find the term Jewish-American princess offensive, but if the tiara fits.
"You're so trim," she said. "I work for it," I said. "Inside me, there is an angry fat woman." "How do you fit her in there?"
The past is never past. Only idiots think that.
She was meant to have given up coffee, but what was the point of living without coffee? Living, it seemed to her, was the acquiring of bad habits.
The receptionist apologized. The doctor was running behind schedule. Behind schedule is the schedule, Embeth thought.
Maybe you thought having an affair would be exciting, but mainly what it is, is lonely. Your days are spent waiting for the nights, which is the only time you ever see him. And it's not like it's every night, or every other night, or even once a week. It's when he has time, usually late. Less generously, it sometimes feels like he is a toddler with many toys and you are a doll he occasionally remembers to play with.
"You know what people who have great gaydar usually are? Bigots."
If you decide to never leave your house again and become a Boo Radley-style shut-in, turn to page 114.
"Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She becomes a late night talk show punchline; she is slut shamed, labeled as fat and ugly, and considered a blight on politics in general. How does one go on after this? In Aviva's case, she sees no way out but to change her name and move to a remote town in Maine. She tries to start over as a wedding planner, to be smarter about her life, and to raise her daughter to be strong and confident. But when, at the urging of others, she decides to run for public office herself, that long ago mistake trails her via the Internet like a scarlet A. For in our age, Google guarantees that the past is never, ever, truly past, that everything you've done will live on for everyone to know about for all eternity. And it's only a matter of time until Aviva's daughter, Ruby, finds out who her mother was, and is, and must decide whether she can still respect her. Following three generations of women, plus the wife of the Congressman, YOUNG JANE YOUNG is a sympathetic, smart, funny, and very moving novel about what it means to be a woman of any age. Told in varying voices and emails and even a Choose Your Own Adventure section, it captures not just the mood of our recent highly charged political season, but also the double standards alive and well in every aspect of life for women"--
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