![]() ![]() So, it's a coming of age story where the women are of very different ages. The girl wants to become a chef, and the grandmother, who has sort of had many, many husbands, wants to sort of see if she can stand on her own two feet. It's about a girl and her grandmother who move to Miami. ![]() of course, and she wants to write a show that's loosely based on her own life. Well, like many of us, she was deeply influenced by "The Golden Girls," and she wants to. ![]() She moves to Los Angeles to pursue this dream of writing a television series. She's lived with her grandma since her parents died in a car accident, and that left her face scarred. GREENE: So, the new novel, "Next Best Thing," it follows the heroine, Ruth Saunders. JENNIFER WEINER: Thank you very much for having me. Jennifer Weiner joins me from our studios in New York. and creates her own sitcom - with mixed results. It's about a young woman who moves to L.A. She also created and ran the ABC Family television series "State of Georgia." In her free time, she live tweets the "Bachelorette." Her latest novel, "The Next Best Thing," draws on her TV experience. Weiner's written a bunch of hits, like "Good in Bed," and "In Her Shoes," which became a hit movie starring Cameron Diaz. And so, we'll just refer to her as the author of multiple best-sellers. But that term is imperfect for a lot of reasons. Jennifer Weiner writes what is often referred to as women's fiction. ![]()
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