![]() ![]() ![]() Weiner shows us Hollywood's glitter and grit, from people-watching at the Beverly Hills Hotel to pilot-season heartbreak, as Ruth learns how cutthroat it can be, on-screen and off. Ruth's career-minded, but writers'-room crushes cultivated over one-liners can't help but turn sexy. Meanwhile, divinely dressed Grandma (in her Chanel and DVF and omnipresent Hermes scarf) learns "to speak Variety" as an in-demand extra. In L.A., where "beauty was as common as the oranges that grew on the trees everyone had in their backyards," Ruth camouflages her scars with a coffee-colored fedora as she climbs the rungs and pitches a sitcom inspired by her life-and by The Golden Girls. Blockbuster 1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner returns with an irresistible story about a young woman trying to make it in Hollywood At twenty-three, Ruth Saunders headed west with her seventy-year-old grandma in tow, hoping to be hired as a television writer. (Atria Books), treks cross-country not with a gal pal or boyfriend but with the grandmother who raised her after a car accident killed her parents and shattered her face. The young TV writer in Jennifer Weiner's latest, The Next Best Thing ![]() Ruth Saunders isn't your average Tinseltown-bound college grad with a "funny-mean" wit and an English literature degree. ![]()
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