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The Breakaway
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 she’s lived since college still looks like she’s just moved in. But she’s got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club in Philadelphia. She’s at peace with her plus-size body—at least, most of the time—and she’s 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 she’s always wanted.
Yet Abby can’t escape the feeling that something isn’t right...or the memories of one thrilling night she spent with a man named Sebastian two years previously. When Abby gets a last-minute invitation to lead a cycling trip from NYC to Niagara Falls, she’s 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 group—Sebastian, the one-night stand she thought she’d 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 there’s a surprise last-minute addition to the trip: her mother, Eileen, the woman Abby blames for a lifetime of body shaming and insecurities she’s 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.
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Reviews
Filled with woke/liberal propaganda. I usually finish fiction books within a few days but this one was not exciting or fun, it was hard to read and I couldn’t finish it
By tvsid
Incomplete! The book was not included in its entirity.
By qazxcfgn
Good story about Abby who at 35 is still trying to define her life . She struggles with her self worth and has real issues with her Mom . When she is asked to lead a bike trip we meet many new characters all with their own issues . I loved the biking theme . The meeting up with Sebastian ,after 2years and his social media problems . It was a good story kept me engrossed and guessing .mm
By Reena56
Extremely disappointed and not impressed that this author chose to reinforce abortion as acceptable and ok for a 15 year old girl who shouldn’t have been sleeping around in the first place. Shame on you Jennifer Weiner for weaving that politically correct garbage into your book. I won’t be reading anymore of this authors work.
By Jemlvr
So disappointed in this book. I’ve enjoyed her previous books as light and entertaining reads but this one missed the mark. The author was careless in weaving abortion for a minor without parental knowledge into the story along with “woke-isms” that we are all so tired of. I’m sorry to say, I didn’t finish this one.
By despicto2