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The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner

Contemporary fiction

The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits

by Jennifer Weiner

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Life-shattering fame, forbidden love, and a contentious relationship between pop star sisters: what could go wrong?

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    Love triangle

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    Salacious

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    Music

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    2000s

Synopsis

Cassie and Zoe Grossberg were thrust into the spotlight as The Griffin Sisters, a pop duo that defined the aughts. Together, they skyrocketed to the top, gracing MTV, SNL, and the cover of Rolling Stone. Cassie, a musical genius who never felt at ease in her own skin, preferred to stay in the shadows. Zoe, full of confidence and craving fame, lived for the stage. But fame has a price, and after one turbulent year, the band abruptly broke up.

Now, two decades later, the sisters couldn’t be further apart. Zoe is a suburban mom warning her daughter Cherry to avoid the spotlight, while Cassie has disappeared from public life entirely. But when Cherry begins unearthing the truth behind their breathtaking rise and infamous breakup, long-buried secrets surface, forcing all three women to confront their choices, their desires, and their complicated bonds.

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Prologue

Detroit, 2004

“I never should have touched you,” Russell D’Angelo says to the empty room.

He twists the lock, toes off his cowboy boots, and leans his forehead against the hotel-room door, against the framed placard. He’s too close to read the emergency evacuation routes it details, even if his eyes weren’t blurry with tears. He pinches the bridge of his nose, hard. This is an emergency, the worst he’s ever been in, and knowing how to exit the building safely won’t help.

He is thinking about how she looked, about what he’d said.

I never meant for this to happen, he’d told her as she’d glared at him from the hallway, her face shocked and pale and heartbroken. He’d kept talking, hating the pleading sound of his voice. I’m sorry.

Russell shakes his head to stop the thoughts. Three paces bring him to the bar cart. He unscrews the cap of the whiskey bottle and lifts it to his mouth, welcoming the burn of the liquor. His eyes are closed, but he can still see them both. Two sets of eyes, two faces, turned toward his. Different faces, but with the same shape to their lips, the same slope of their cheeks. Two women, waiting for an answer Russell didn’t have.

“I’m an idiot,” he tells the room. And it’s true. He hadn’t even noticed what was happening until it was too late. It wasn’t until he was standing in front of an officiant, thirty of their closest friends, three hundred fellow celebrities, and a photographer from People magazine that he’d looked over his bride’s shoulder and caught her sister’s eyes, and the knowledge of the mistake that he was making hit him like a punch to the breastbone, rattling his heart. “I do,” he’d said. I’m fucked, he’d thought. And from that moment on, a part of him has been waiting, counting down toward this place and this night.

You have to choose, she’d told him. Except there isn’t a choice here. Not really. Not at all.

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Why I love it

When my sister and I were young, we endeavored to form a musical girl group of sorts. After all, we both loved to sing and believed we had innate talent; we assumed the rest would figure itself out. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, our dream never came to fruition. The same cannot be said for Cassie and Zoe, the sisters and heroines of Jennifer Weiner’s delightful new book, The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits.

Like many sisters, Cassie and Zoe are defined, in large part, by their differences. Zoe is charismatic and ambitious, while Cassie is musically talented but prefers to remain behind the scenes. Set against the backdrop of the early 2000s, the sisters form a pop duo and manage to achieve enormous success—that is, until their band mysteriously breaks apart.

This novel hit all the right notes for me. It evoked my immense nostalgia for a bygone era of pop fervor, while also boldly delving into the complexities and contentions of sisterhood. Despite the fact that I never achieved Pop Princess status, I could deeply relate to these characters and resonated with their journey towards reconciliation. Emotional and addictive in equal measure, this book won’t disappoint.

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Wild Dark Shore
The Last Love Note
What Does It Feel Like?
Deep Cuts
Jane and Dan at the End of the World
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
More or Less Maddy
The Wedding People
Good Dirt
Penitence
The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits
The Favorites
Honey
The Bright Years
We All Live Here
The Leftover Woman
Fun for the Whole Family
Water Baby
We Could Be Rats
The Same Bright Stars
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
What Happened to the McCrays?
Bye, Baby
Definitely Better Now
Swan Song
The Days I Loved You Most
The Connellys of County Down
Joe Nuthin’s Guide to Life
Jackpot Summer
Adelaide
I Might Be in Trouble
The Collected Regrets of Clover
Again and Again
Evil Eye
Black Cake
Maame
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Someone Else’s Shoes
We Are the Brennans
The Bad Muslim Discount
What Comes After
Olga Dies Dreaming
Last Summer at the Golden Hotel
Monster in the Middle
Nine Perfect Strangers
The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany
The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes
Honey Girl
In Every Mirror She's Black
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
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The Unsinkable Greta James
The Love of My Life
The Five-Star Weekend
A Home for the Holidays
The Wishing Game
Behold the Dreamers
The Mothers
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
Little Fires Everywhere
The Music Shop
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
The Reckless Oath We Made
When We Were Vikings
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