Big Summer

by Jennifer Weiner

Acknowledgments

IN CONCLUSION: I started writing BIG SUMMER after I’d finished a big, sprawling novel that took place over seventy years and followed thee generations of women. That was my swing-for-the-fences book, and when it was done, I told my husband, “I just want to write something that happens over a weekend, where a fat girl gets a happy ending.” That was the seed that grew into Daphne and Drue and Nick….and, for a book that I’d initially thought about as a light-hearted, romantic romp, it turned out to have some things to say, about friendship, about the internet, about the differences between the way we are and the way we seem, and what we show the world. I hope that this book entertained you, and that it gave you some things to think about. My next book, THAT SUMMER, is out on 5/11: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55467800-that-summer