Jillian Medoff, Author . Morrow $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-621269-2
Medoff's debut novel, the well-received Hunger Point, leavened the serious topic of eating disorders with a healthy dose of wry humor. In her sophomore effort Medoff takes aim at therapy, female bonding, low self-esteem and revenge—with...
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Jillian Medoff, Author ReganBooks $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-039189-8
In Medoff's memorable first novel, narrator Frannie, a directionless 26-year-old who has just moved back into her parents' Long Island home, must cope with her younger, more ambitious sister Shelly's hospitalization for anorexia, as well as with her
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Jillian Medoff. Grand Central/5 Spot, $13.99 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-446-58462-3
In Medoff’s poignant—though occasionally melodramatic—follow-up to Hunger Point, 38-year-old Eliot Harmon is a hardworking mother of Hailey—and stepmother of Charlotte and Gail—in Atlanta’s suburbs, where she lives happily enough with her partner,...
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Jillian Medoff. Harper, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-266076-3
Medoff (I Couldn’t Love You More) explores the effects of the 2008 economic downturn on a small staff of human resources managers at a research firm in this witty novel. At the twilight of a successful career, 64-year-old Rosa Guerrero, Ellery...
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Jillian Medoff. Harper, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-314202-2
In Medoff’s emotional latest (after This Could Hurt), a young woman and her adoptive family contend with her younger brother’s trial for sexual assault. Cassie Forrester-Quinn, 23, returns home to Manhattan from her graduate studies at Yale after...
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