Jennifer Weiner. (2011). Then Came You: A Novel. Atria Books.

Jennifer Weiner. 2011. Then Came You: A Novel. Atria Books.

Jennifer Weiner, Then Came You: A Novel. Atria Books, 2011.

Jennifer Weiner. Then Came You: A Novel. Atria Books, 2011.

OverDrive Product Record

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0439-1/{7F19D876-F32F-429A-9494-E9CC63A109DE}IMG100.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0439-1/{7F19D876-F32F-429A-9494-E9CC63A109DE}IMG200.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0439-1/{7F19D876-F32F-429A-9494-E9CC63A109DE}IMG150.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0439-1/{7F19D876-F32F-429A-9494-E9CC63A109DE}IMG400.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781451617740
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781451617740
     2. • type: ASIN
        • value: B004G8QSC6
   • name: Kindle Book
   • id: ebook-kindle
3. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781451617740
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • id: ebook-overdrive

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9781451617733

mediaType

eBook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Jennifer Weiner

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Then Came You

dateAdded

2014-08-01T19:59:00Z

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=141&titleID=602522
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
     • id: 1151

sortTitle

Then Came You A Novel

crossRefId

602522

subtitle

A Novel

id

7F19D876-F32F-429A-9494-E9CC63A109DE

starRating

3.8

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • fileName: ThenCameYou_9781451617740_602522
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 3891532
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781451617740
   • rights:
     1. • type: Copying
        • value: 0
     2. • type: Printing
        • value: 0
     3. • type: Lending
        • value: 0
     4. • type: ReadAloud
        • value: 0
     5. • type: ExpirationRights
        • value: 0
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
   • onSaleDate: 7/12/2011
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0439-1/7F1/9D8/76/ThenCameYouANovel9781451617740.epub
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7F19D876-F32F-429A-9494-E9CC63A109DE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • fileName: ThenCameYou_9781451617740_602522
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781451617740
     2. • type: ASIN
        • value: B004G8QSC6
   • name: Kindle Book
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-kindle
   • onSaleDate: 7/12/2011
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0439-1/7F1/9D8/76/ThenCameYouANovel9781451617740.epub
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7F19D876-F32F-429A-9494-E9CC63A109DE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
3. • fileName: ThenCameYou_9781451617740_602522
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781451617740
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 7/12/2011
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0439-1/7F1/9D8/76/ThenCameYouANovel9781451617740.epub
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7F19D876-F32F-429A-9494-E9CC63A109DE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

keywords

1. • value: Addiction
2. • value: strong women
3. • value: pregnancy
4. • value: Women's Fiction
5. • value: LGBTQ
6. • value: Princeton
7. • value: LGBT
8. • value: Fertility
9. • value: Chick Lit
10. • value: Lesbian
11. • value: beach read
12. • value: best friends forever
13. • value: Who Do You Love
14. • value: gifts for women
15. • value: egg donation
16. • value: new york times best sellers
17. • value: LGBTQ books
18. • value: bestselling fiction
19. • value: All Fall Down
20. • value: fly away home
21. • value: In her shoes
22. • value: unexpected love story
23. • value: mrs everything
24. • value: then came you
25. • value: books set in pennsylvania
26. • value: Good in Bed
27. • value: Little Earthquakes
28. • value: certain girls
29. • value: goodnight nobody
30. • value: guy not taken
31. • value: hungry heart
32. • value: jennifer weiner books
33. • value: jennifer wiener
34. • value: the next best thing
35. • value: books about surrogates
36. • value: daughters and parents
37. • value: jen weiner book
38. • value: jen wiener
39. • value: jen wyner
40. • value: jenn weiner
41. • value: jenn wiener
42. • value: jenn wyner
43. • value: jennifer wyner

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Weiner, Jennifer
   • bioText: Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one books, including The Summer Place, That Summer, Big Summer, Mrs. Everything, In Her Shoes, Good in Bed, and a memoir in essays, Hungry Heart. She has appeared on many national television programs, including Today and Good Morning America, and her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, among other newspapers and magazines. Jennifer lives with her family in Philadelphia. Visit her online at JenniferWeiner.com.
   • name: Jennifer Weiner

publishDate

2011-07-12T00:00:00-04:00

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Then Came You

fullDescription

An unexpected love story...

Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior with a full scholarship, acquaintances instead of friends, and a family she's ashamed to invite to Parents' Weekend. With the income she'll receive from donating her "pedigree" eggs, she believes she can save her father from addiction.

Annie Barrow married her high school sweetheart and became the mother to two boys. After years of staying at home and struggling to support four people on her husband's salary, she thinks she's found a way to recover a sense of purpose and bring in some extra cash.

India Bishop, thirty-eight (really forty-three), has changed everything about herself: her name, her face, her past. In New York City, she falls for a wealthy older man, Marcus Croft, and decides a baby will ensure a happy ending. When her attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to technology, and Annie and Jules, to help make her dreams come true.

But each of their plans is thrown into disarray when Marcus' daughter Bettina, intent on protecting her father, becomes convinced that his new wife is not what she seems...

With startling tenderness and laugh-out-loud humor, Jennifer Weiner once again takes readers into the heart of women's lives in an unforgettable, timely tale that interweaves themes of class and entitlement, surrogacy and donorship, the rights of a parent and the measure of motherhood.

reviews

1. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     May 16, 2011
     Weiner (Best Friends Forever) revisits girls-are-their-own-best-friends territory with this savvy tale of a profoundly unorthodox family, unspooling the impossibly complicated and hopeful tale of how baby Aurora was born. The players: beautiful, lonely Princeton student and egg donor Jules, who uses the proceeds from selling her eggs to help save her drug-addled dad; surrogate Annie, a restless married mom-of-two trying to dig her way out of debt, a lifelong rivalry with her successful sister, and a marital rut; Bettina, India's step-daughter, who feels betrayed by her divorced parents and is desperate to rebuild the imagined happiness of her youth; and Aurora's legal mom, India, a gold digger who inadvertently falls in love with the man she married for money. Their individual paths to each other, and Aurora, are related in alternating chapters narrated by each woman, told with equal parts love and longing—whether it be for a partner, a purpose, or a family. The men in their lives—in Jules's case, the woman—are inexplicably forgiving and disappointingly superfluous as the gals build a network and a modern village to raise the baby each of whom had a hand in creating.

2. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     June 1, 2011
     

     Four women confront the quandaries surrounding modern motherhood, in Weiner's fraught latest (In Her Shoes, 2002, etc.).

     The four narrators of this cautionary tale of motherhood wouldn't be where they are without serious parenting issues. Trust-fund baby Bettina's father, Marcus, a Wall Street kingpin, was so devastated when her mother decamped to Taos to follow a guru, that he fell prey to an airbrushed gold-digger, India, who, Bettina believes, not only tricked him into marriage but into reproducing by surrogacy. Jules, a work-study student at Princeton, becomes an egg donor to earn enough to put her father, a formerly respectable high-school teacher whose career and marriage exploded after a drunken vehicular felony, through rehab. Annie, happily married, still anguishes over the expense of raising two rambunctious boys and maintaining a ramshackle family farmhouse on her husband's Frank's salary as a TSA officer. To replenish the family coffers, Frank reluctantly agrees to let her become a surrogate mother—very reluctantly, it turns out. India, abandoned by her own mother, fled to Hollywood from Connecticut at 18. Failing to take Hollywood by storm, she reinvented herself as a publicist, shedding years and pounds with the aid of false documents and surgical enhancements. At 37, India, a rising Manhattan PR star, ensnares Marcus by helping him order coffee at Starbucks. Bettina hires a detective, discovering India's real age (43) and other truths so shocking that they cannot be revealed until the end of the novel. Nonetheless, her brothers and her laid-back Buddhist mother refuse to help her dislodge India—there's plenty of money to go around, after all. Besides, could that unfamiliar discomfiture Bettina is experiencing be sympathy for her stepmother? And could India actually be factoring love into her calculations of Marcus' net worth? 

     The conflicts enmeshing all these characters, as each becomes embroiled in Marcus and India's "assisted gestation" scheme, are gripping, and Weiner's elucidation of socio-economic determinism is as sharp as ever. However, the ending does not so much jump the shark as de-fang it.

     (COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

3. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     February 15, 2011
     

     Certainly a hot topic: Princeton senior Jules Wildgren needs money to help her father clean up his addiction, working-class mom Annie Barrow needs money just to live, and India Bishop needs Jules's eggs and Annie's womb because she can't conceive. Then India's much older husband dies, leaving his daughter as guardian of the unborn babe. So what does it really mean to be a mom? A ten-city tour and book club materials; bound to do well.

     Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

4. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     June 1, 2011
     Weiner's latest outing chronicles the plight of four women who are brought together when one of them decides to have a baby. At 43, India knows her hopes of having a child naturally are slim, and the in vitro fertilization she and her older, wealthy husband, Marcus, have been trying isn't working. So India and Marcus decide to go another route: they select an egg from a donor and choose a surrogate to carry the baby. Weiner introduces us to both: Jules is a stunning college student who decides to donate her eggs so she can pay for her father to go to rehab, and Annie, a young mother of two, chooses to become a surrogate to help support her family. The only one not happy with India's plan is Bettina, Marcus' adult daughter, who is secretly hoping her parents will reunite. In this warm and winning yarn, Weiner draws readers into the lives of each woman, and brings them together in an unexpected and ultimately rewarding way. Another surefire hit for the popular author of Fly Away Home (2010). HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Best-selling Weiner has an avid and active fan base, and Internet buzz is growing about her new book and many plannedsummer appearances.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)

5. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     June 1, 2011
     

     Four women confront the quandaries surrounding modern motherhood, in Weiner's fraught latest (In Her Shoes, 2002, etc.).

     The four narrators of this cautionary tale of motherhood wouldn't be where they are without serious parenting issues. Trust-fund baby Bettina's father, Marcus, a Wall Street kingpin, was so devastated when her mother decamped to Taos to follow a guru, that he fell prey to an airbrushed gold-digger, India, who, Bettina believes, not only tricked him into marriage but into reproducing by surrogacy. Jules, a work-study student at Princeton, becomes an egg donor to earn enough to put her father, a formerly respectable high-school teacher whose career and marriage exploded after a drunken vehicular felony, through rehab. Annie, happily married, still anguishes over the expense of raising two rambunctious boys and maintaining a ramshackle family farmhouse on her husband's Frank's salary as a TSA officer. To replenish the family coffers, Frank reluctantly agrees to let her become a surrogate mother--very reluctantly, it turns out. India, abandoned by her own mother, fled to Hollywood from Connecticut at 18. Failing to take Hollywood by storm, she reinvented herself as a publicist, shedding years and pounds with the aid of false documents and surgical enhancements. At 37, India, a rising Manhattan PR star, ensnares Marcus by helping him order coffee at Starbucks. Bettina hires a detective, discovering India's real age (43) and other truths so shocking that they cannot be revealed until the end of the novel. Nonetheless, her brothers and her laid-back Buddhist mother refuse to help her dislodge India--there's plenty of money to go around, after all. Besides, could that unfamiliar discomfiture Bettina is experiencing be sympathy for her stepmother? And could India actually be factoring love into her calculations of Marcus' net worth?

     The conflicts enmeshing all these characters, as each becomes embroiled in Marcus and India's "assisted gestation" scheme, are gripping, and Weiner's elucidation of socio-economic determinism is as sharp as ever. However, the ending does not so much jump the shark as de-fang it.

     (COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

6. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     June 1, 2011
     

     Weiner's (Fly Away Home) new novel revolves around the central issue of surrogacy, and she uses multiple viewpoints to narrate the story. The reader alternately follows the main players: Jules, the egg donor, is a Princeton senior grappling with her sexuality and family issues; Annie, the surrogate, seeks to help her own family financially; the would-be mother, India, is a new trophy wife; and her stepdaughter, Bettina, resents India for sabotaging the possibility of a reconciliation between her parents. VERDICT Weiner has written a compelling novel that gradually reveals more about her characters as her page-turning plot propels the story forward. The ending, while not completely happy, is satisfying, as Weiner's fans will probably expect. Fans of Marian Keyes, Anna Maxted, and other authors of serious chick lit will thoroughly enjoy this title for its humor mixed with a sympathetic portrayal of real women's lives and challenges. [See Prepub Alert, 1/24/11.]--Kristen Stewart, Brazoria Cty. Lib. Syst., Pearland, TX

     Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

popularity

458

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/7f19d876-f32f-429a-9494-e9cc63a109de/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json

id

7f19d876-f32f-429a-9494-e9cc63a109de

starRating

3.8

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0439-1/{7F19D876-F32F-429A-9494-E9CC63A109DE}IMG100.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0439-1/{7F19D876-F32F-429A-9494-E9CC63A109DE}IMG200.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0439-1/{7F19D876-F32F-429A-9494-E9CC63A109DE}IMG150.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0439-1/{7F19D876-F32F-429A-9494-E9CC63A109DE}IMG400.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Fiction
2. • value: Literature

publishDateText

07/12/2011

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9781451617733

mediaType

eBook

shortDescription

An unexpected love story...

Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior with a full scholarship, acquaintances instead of friends, and a family she's ashamed to invite to Parents' Weekend. With the income she'll receive from donating her "pedigree" eggs, she believes she can save her father from addiction.

Annie Barrow married her high school sweetheart and became the mother to two boys. After years of staying at home and struggling to support four people on her husband's salary, she thinks she's found a way to recover a sense of purpose and bring in some extra cash.

India Bishop, thirty-eight (really forty-three), has changed everything about herself: her name, her face, her past. In New York City, she falls for a wealthy older man, Marcus Croft, and decides a baby will ensure a happy ending. When her attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to technology, and Annie and Jules, to help make her dreams come true.

But each of their plans is thrown...

sortTitle

Then Came You A Novel

crossRefId

602522

subtitle

A Novel

publisher

Atria Books

bisacCodes

1. • code: FIC019000
   • description: Fiction / Literary
2. • code: FIC044000
   • description: Fiction / Contemporary Women
3. • code: FIC045000
   • description: Fiction / Family Life / General