A Preview Event launches 22nd Annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair with Author Jennifer Weiner

LA JOLLA, Calif. - Sept. 8, 2016 - PRLog -- To launch San Diego's internationally recognized, 22^nd Annual, San Diego Jewish Book Fair, a preview event will be held on Thursday, October 20th with #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner, author of soon-to-be-released, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing.  Event will be held at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center,JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS, in the David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, California 92037. Tickets are$32/$27 (JCC members), which includes a copy Hungry Heart hot off the presses!

For fifteen years, in twelve works of fiction, Jennifer Weiner has told stories about the women the world doesn't see: Plus-size women, older women, struggling new mothers, women in search of friendship, women struggling in their marriages, women trying to find a best friend, trying to have a baby, trying to find their place in the world.  Her stories have made millions of readers laugh, and cry.  Most importantly, her books have made them feel less alone, less invisible.  I see you, her stories say. I see you, and I am you.

This fall, Jennifer Weiner is taking that message – I see you, I am you -- to new heights, and a brand-new audience, by telling her own, true story in HUNGRY HEART: Adventures in Life, Love and Writing (Atria Books; October 11, 2016; $27.00).  This is Jennifer's funniest, most candid book yet, and is already earning the best reviews of her career.   In her first work of nonfiction, she takes the raw material of her personal life and spins it into a collection of essays on womanhood, as uproariously funny and moving as the best of Tina Fey, Fran Lebowitz, and Nora Ephron.

No subject is off-limits in this intimate and honest essay collection.  From a lonely adolescence to love, marriage, and modern childbirth to hearing her six-year-old daughter's use of the f-word—fat­­—for the first time, from her mother's late-in-life lesbianism to her estranged father's death, HUNGRY HEART is a stunningly honest, funny, heartbreaking, and ultimately redemptive memoir about hunger and humor, loving and losing, and a woman who has searched for her place in the world—and found it as a storyteller.

For tickets visit www.sdjbf.org or call the JCC Box Office at 858-362-1348.

FACTS:

Jennifer Weiner - Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing

Thursday, October 20

7:00 pm

Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center,

JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS

4126 Executive Drive

La Jolla, California 92037

David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre

For tickets visit www.sdcjc.com or call the JCC Box Office at 858-362-1348.

22^nd ANNUAL SAN DIEGO JEWISH BOOK FAIR

San Diego's internationally recognized San Diego Jewish Book Fair celebrates its 22nd year with many leading authors in their fields including: Jennifer Weiner, Rich Cohen, Shep Gordon, Samuel M. Katz, Todd Buchholz, Josh Aronson, Dov Waxman, Daniel Oppenheimer, Nina Tassler, Peter Himmelman and Fred Kaplan. This year's lineup strikes a balance of arts and intellect, ideas and imagination, history and humor, and also will include spirited discussions about cyber wars, politics, the economy and the military. For those seeking a quiet escape from the daily grind, READ-JUVINATION will be a special day focusing on mind, balance and body. A complete list of authors and events can be found at www.sdjbf.org.  Book Fair events will run from October 29 through November 6, and are presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS.

JENNIFER WEINER

A #1 New York Times bestselling author, Jennifer Weiner's books have spent over five years on the New York Times bestseller list, with over thirteen million copies in print in thirty-six countries. She is the author of the novels Good in Bed (2001); In Her Shoes (2002), which was turned into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine; Little Earthquakes (2004); Goodnight Nobody (2005); the short story collection The Guy Not Taken (2006); Certain Girls (2008); Best Friends Forever (2009); Fly Away Home (2010); Then Came You (2011); The Next Best Thing (2012); All Fall Down (2014), and Who Do You Love (2015). This Fall, Atria Books will publish her first work of nonfiction, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing, and Aladdin Books will publish The Littlest Bigfoot, the first book in a middle-grade trilogy about two lonely girls – one human, one Bigfoot – and the hidden world that they come together to protect.

Jennifer Weiner grew up in Connecticut and graduated with a degree in English literature from Princeton University. She worked as a newspaper reporter in central Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Philadelphia, where she wrote a series of popular columns for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Weiner is now a host of her own People magazine web series, The Pie, and Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times Op-Ed and Sunday Review. Weiner's recent Times contributions – "The Snobs and Me," "The Love Story Primary," "When Can Women Stop Trying to Look Perfect?," "The Year of the Toilet," "Longing for the Innocence of Playboy," "Miss America, My Guilty Pleasure," "The Ashley Madison Hack Shows We're Too Dumb to Cheat" "'Hello Mother, Hello Daughter': Texts of Misery from Camp," "The Pressure to Look Good," "The Cost of Buying Someone's Soul. Or Tweets," "All Grown Up and In Charge of the Seder," "Another Thing to Hate About Ourselves," "Mean Girls in the Retirement Home," and "All Blurbed Out"– have risen to the top of the "most emailed" lists and have been picked up by newspapers and media outlets across the world.