Jennifer Weiner discusses THE BREAKAWAY with Gabrielle Rossi

Join us on Tuesday, May 14th at 6pm for a discussion and signing of the Breakaway with author Jennifer Weiner in conversation with Gabrielle Rossi.

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Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one books, including The Breakaway (out in paperback May 7), The Summer Place, That Summer, Big Summer, Mrs. Everything, In Her Shoes, Good in Bed, and a memoir in essays, Hungry Heart. Her new book, The Griffin Sisters Greatest Hits, will be published in 2025. She has appeared on many national television programs, including The Today Show and Good Morning America, and her work has been published in newspapers and magazines including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Jennifer lives with her family in Philadelphia. Visit her online at JenniferWeiner.com.

Dr. Gabrielle Rossi's blended background of educational and practical experience uniquely poised her to start Girls in Gear in 2021. She has 10+ years of experience leading youth development organizations that use recreation as a platform for life lessons. As the executive director of Girls in Gear, Gabrielle has the pleasure of seeing girls take what they learn on their bikes and apply it to their lives with verve, tenacity, and pluck. Gabrielle is a full-time faculty member at Rutgers University where she's been honored for her work in the Camden community. Her research focuses on how biking makes you a better person. She is a Wilderness First-Responder and League Cycling Instructor.

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new novel about love, family, friendship, secrets, and a life-changing journey.

Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she’s lived since college still looks like she’s just moved in. But she’s got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club in Philadelphia. She’s at peace with her plus-size body—at least, most of the time—and she’s on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her perpetually dieting mother forced her to attend. Fifteen years after her final summer at Camp Golden Hills, when Abby reconnects with a half-his-size Mark, it feels like the happy ending she’s always wanted.

Yet Abby can’t escape the feeling that something isn’t right...or the memories of one thrilling night she spent with a man named Sebastian two years previously. When Abby gets a last-minute invitation to lead a cycling trip from NYC to Niagara Falls, she’s happy to have time away from Mark, a chance to reflect and make up her mind.

But things get complicated fast. First, Abby spots a familiar face in the group—Sebastian, the one-night stand she thought she’d never see again. Sebastian is a serial dater who lives a hundred miles away. In spite of their undeniable chemistry, Abby is determined to keep her distance. Then there’s a surprise last-minute addition to the trip: her mother, Eileen, the woman Abby blames for a lifetime of body shaming and insecurities she’s still trying to undo.

Over two weeks and more than seven hundred miles, strangers become friends, hidden truths come to light, a teenage girl with a secret unites the riders in unexpected ways...and Abby is forced to reconsider everything she believes about herself, her mother, and the nature of love.