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Jennifer Weiners talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. From a teenager coming to terms with her fathers disappearance to a widow accepting two young women into her home, Weiners eleven stories explore those transformative moments in our every day. We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with her new baby late one Friday night, when she wanders onto her exs online wedding registry and wonders what if she had wound up with the guy not taken. We stumble onGood in BedsBruce Guberman, liquored-up and ready for anything on the night of his best friends bachelor party, until stealing his girlfriends tiny rat terrier becomes more complicated than hed planned. We find Jessica Norton listing her beloved New York City apartment in the hope of winning her brokers heart. And we follow an unlikely friendship between two very different new mothers, and the choices that bring them together -- and pull them apart. The Guy Not Takendemonstrates Weiners amazing ability to create characters who feel like they could be your best friend (Janet Maslin) and to find hope and humor, longing and love in the hidden corners of our common experiences.