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. Kate, 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).
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