โ๐๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฑ๐ดโ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฑ๐ดโ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ช๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ข ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ฃ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ.โ โฃ
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I loved this book! Jennifer Weiner has written a character-driven story about mother-daughter relationships, romance, body positivity and so much more! I couldnโt put it down. โฃ
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The author, a cyclist herself, takes the reader on a bike tour through upstate New York. Abby is in her early thirties, with a serious boyfriend named Mark who she met at summer camp when she was a preteen, and leading this trip for the first time as a group leader. She has a fraught relationship with her mother and is also not entirely sure that Mark is the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with. She hopes this bike trip with give her some clarity and perspective.โฃ
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I loved getting to know the rest of the biking group and the multiple points of view. I especially loved Sebastian and his slow-burn romance with Abby. All of the characters were very realistic, flawed and relatable. I particularly loved and appreciated the Jewish representation in this book. Most of all, I loved how this book inspired me to check my bike, fill my tires and go out for a ride!
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โ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฑ๐ด ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ. ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ถ๐ฑ, ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด๐ฆ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต, ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ๐ฃ๐ฆ, ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด๐ฆ. ๐๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ.โ โฃ
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(๐๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐บ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฑ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ. ๐๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ.)
About the Book:
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new novel about love, family, friendship, secrets, and a life-changing journey.
Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where sheโs lived since college still looks like sheโs just moved in. But sheโs got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club in Philadelphia. Sheโs at peace with her plus-size bodyโat least, most of the timeโand sheโs on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her perpetually dieting mother forced her to attend. Fifteen years after her final summer at Camp Golden Hills, when Abby reconnects with a half-his-size Mark, it feels like the happy ending sheโs always wanted.
Yet Abby canโt escape the feeling that someยญthing isnโt right…or the memories of one thrilling night she spent with a man named Sebastian two years previously. When Abby gets a last-minute inviยญtation to lead a cycling trip from NYC to Niagara Falls, sheโs happy to have time away from Mark, a chance to reflect and make up her mind.
But things get complicated fast. First, Abby spots a familiar face in the groupโSebastian, the one-night stand she thought sheโd never see again. Sebastian is a serial dater who lives a hundred miles away. In spite of their undeniable chemistry, Abby is determined to keep her distance. Then thereโs a surprise last-minute addition to the her mother, Eileen, the woman Abby blames for a lifetime of body shaming and insecurities sheโs still trying to undo.
Over two weeks and more than seven hundred miles, strangers become friends, hidden truths come to light, a teenage girl with a secret unites the riders in unexpected ways…and Abby is forced to reconsider everything she believes about herself, her mother, and the nature of love.
