Jennifer Close. (2016). The Hopefuls: A novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Jennifer Close. 2016. The Hopefuls: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Jennifer Close, The Hopefuls: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016.

Jennifer Close. The Hopefuls: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016.

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   • bioText: JENNIFER CLOSE is the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses and The Smart One. Born and raised on the North Shore of Chicago, she is a graduate of Boston College and received her MFA in fiction writing from The New School in 2005. She worked in New York in magazines for many years. She now lives in Washington, DC, and teaches creative writing at George Washington University.
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A blazingly honest portrait of ambition and marriage, and a brilliantly funny send-up of young D.C., from the bestselling author of Girls in White Dresses.
“Hilarious.... A pleasure to read.”—The Washington Post
A New York newlywed, Beth was supportive when her husband, Matt, decided to follow his political dreams all the way to Washington. Yet soon after they move to D.C., Beth realizes that she hates everything about it: the traffic circles, the ubiquitous Ann Taylor suits, the humidity that descends each summer, and, most of all, the lonely dinner parties where anyone who doesn’t work in politics is politely ignored. Things start to change when the couple meets a charismatic White House staffer named Jimmy and his wife, Ashleigh. The four become inseparable, coordinating brunches, birthdays, and long weekends away. But as Jimmy’s star rises higher and higher, the couples’ friendship—and Beth’s relationship with Matt—is threatened by jealousy, competition, and rumors.

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   • source: Ron Charles, The Washington Post
   • content: "The Hopefuls captures everything we love to hate about Washington... A hilarious gripefest... Here, finally, is a novel witty enough to match your secret loathing -- and tenderhearted enough to make you realize how much you love this damned cesspool after all... [The] winking humor and especially the real affection between Beth and Matt make The Hopefuls a pleasure to read... [Close] has a light, precise touch about the way a young marriage works when the partners are caught between old ideals and new realities... But the real heart of The Hopefuls is the tension between idealism and cynicism inherent to politics... A welcome mixture of humor and wisdom about the good people who run this country -- or, for some reason, want to."
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   • source: Meredith Turits, Elle
   • content: "The author of Girls in White Dresses delivers her latest novel about a couple navigating the political ladder in D.C. Inspired by Close's own experiences moving to Washington for her husband's work on the Obama campaign, The Hopefuls is blisteringly honest about the circus of American politics and Washington's exhausting culture of competition--one that that renders people outside of political circles virtually invisible."
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     May 23, 2016
     In Close’s (Girls in White Dresses) uneven fourth novel, writer Beth Kelly reluctantly leaves New York City to move to Washington, D.C., due to her husband, Matt, and his promising job in politics. He hopes to run for office one day, having been groomed for glory since childhood by his overbearing mother, Babs. Unfortunately, though he has the drive, Matt lacks the charm and charisma that his handsome friend Jimmy Dillon has in excess. With jealousy and admiration, Matt watches Jimmy fulfill his ambitions with ease. In the meantime, cosmopolitan Beth forges an unlikely friendship with Jimmy’s unrefined but sweet wife, Ash. Though Close’s novel is initially snappy and engaging, it becomes a slog once Beth follows Matt to Texas, where he begins work on Jimmy’s local campaign. Unemployed Beth endures endless days of monotony and repetitive election talk, growing apart from Matt and Ash as Ash turns maliciously gossipy and Matt irritably begins to shut her out. The formerly tight foursome begin to get on one another’s nerves, although Beth starts to think of Jimmy as more than a pal. The novel’s strengths lie in documenting how stress changes people, the work that marriage requires, and the importance of having a passion of one’s own. A welcome tension returns to the story as an inevitably fruitless election night looms, but not enough to recover the lost momentum of the book’s tedious middle pages.

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     May 15, 2016
     From Close (The Smart One, 2013), a beach read for the election season about the friendship of two women whose husbands work in the Obama White House.In 2009, narrator Beth reluctantly leaves New York for Washington, D.C., when her politically ambitious lawyer husband, Matt, takes a job in the White House counsel's office. Beth is lonely and generally miserable until she and Matt meet Ashleigh Dillon and her husband, Jimmy, who works in the White House travel office, at a birthday party for another staffer. Despite her evangelical and artsy-craftsy leanings, Texan Ashleigh, who calls herself Ash in D.C., and Beth become intensely close friends, as do their husbands. But over the next four years, charismatic, easygoing Jimmy easily rises from one post to the next better one while diligent, hardworking Matt becomes increasingly frustrated as his work proves less interesting than he'd hoped. After the second inauguration, Matt is thrilled when approached to run for office in Maryland to fill a vacating seat, but his hopes are dashed when the incumbent decides to run again. The Dillons move back to Texas, where Jimmy is soon tapped to run for Texas Railroad Commissioner. Matt is excited when Jimmy asks him to manage his campaign, and Beth is game to try out Texas, but as soon as they move into the Dillons' mansion in a wealthy Houston suburb, the couples' relationships begin to show schisms: Jimmy and Matt grow increasingly hostile as the campaign falters; a preoccupied Matt doesn't give Beth the attention she wants; Jimmy doesn't help Ash with their baby; Beth has trouble relating to Ash, who has reverted to Ashleigh in name and personality; and then there's that sexual tension between Jimmy and Beth--although, as usual, Close's depictions of troubled marriages are less interesting than her explorations of troubled friendships. Beth's tone veers between snark and whine, and to make matters worse, she couldn't care less about politics.This comedy about political insiders is surprisingly cheerless and weirdly apolitical.

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     Starred review from July 1, 2016
     Uprooted from her life in New York and transplanted to Washington, D.C., Beth feels completely lost. She knows that her husband, Matt, is happier in D.C., surrounded by political chatter and campaign staffers, but she's tired of hearing the same White House stories from the same people. When Beth meets Ashleigh Dillon, they immediately bond over the cliquey nature of the city, and Ash's husband, Jimmy, becomes fast friends with Matt. When the Dillons decide to move to Texas to launch Jimmy's political career, it isn't long before Beth and Matt move down to join the campaign. As election day creeps closer, the strain on the once-friendly foursome begins to take its toll, forcing Beth and Matt to reassess their shared priorities. Close lays the sacrifices and successes of a marriage bare with razor-sharp prose and keen wit. Fans of Lianne Moriarty's relatable heroines will adore fish-out-of-water Beth, while political junkies will appreciate an insider's view of a small campaign. With themes reminiscent of The Marriage Plot (2011) and perfectly suited for this year's political climate, The Hopefuls is unflinchingly honest and utterly compelling.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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“Hilarious.... A pleasure to read.”—The Washington Post
A New York newlywed, Beth was supportive when her husband, Matt, decided to follow his political dreams all the way to Washington. Yet soon after they move to D.C., Beth realizes that she hates everything about it: the traffic circles, the ubiquitous Ann Taylor suits, the humidity that descends each summer, and, most of all, the lonely dinner parties where anyone who doesn’t work in politics is politely ignored. Things start to change when the couple meets a charismatic White House staffer named Jimmy and his wife, Ashleigh. The four become inseparable, coordinating brunches, birthdays, and long weekends away. But as Jimmy’s star rises higher and higher, the couples’ friendship—and Beth’s...

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