Goodnight Nobody is Jennifer Weiner's fourth book. Her first book, Good in Bed, was well received and earned her a crown in the "chick-lit" realm of reading.
In Goodnight Nobody, we meet Kate Klein. Once upon a time, Kate lived in New York City. She lived with her crazy best friend Janie and the two of them worked at a celebrity news magazine. She, a girl with big thighs and big hair, was head over heels for her next door neighbor, who was engaged to a model. Anyway, time has a funny way of changing things. She now lives in Connecticut with her workaholic husband and is a stay-at-home mom of three. It's all boring her to death till she walks in on her Stepford-bot neighbor, Kitty ... who is dead with a knife in her back.
The murder sparks Kate back to life. Her desire to write is spurred up again, and she finds herself knee deep into some serious investigative journalism. Oh, and that handsome neighbor reappears.
The book was great ... until the last 20 pages. Things were wrapped up a bit sloppy. Without giving anything away, I'm left wondering: What happened to that one? (We don't find out.) The president, really? (Yes.)
I suspect the ending is left so as an opening to a sequel. I hope so.
There's a lot of great stuff in there on the reality of motherhood and marriage and the importance of female friendships - Janie, the BFF, is a riot. Weiner's writing has matured a good deal from Good in Bed, and I find Kate more likable and real than Cannie (the main character from Good in Bed, who sort of annoyed me).
Read it, if you have the time.
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