![]() ![]() Now her basketball star husband is slapped with a paternity suit by another woman. For Ayinde, beautiful and from a privileged background as the daughter of an actor and a model, being biracial has been a lifelong struggle. An event planner who has orchestrated her life for maximum security, Kelly is thrown a curve when her husband gets laid off from his corporate job and becomes a couch potato. ![]() Overachieving Kelly’s issue is the poverty she has overcome. A restaurant owner married to a nice Jewish doctor, Becky’s challenge is her obnoxious, overbearing mother-in-law. Lia’s challenge is obviously her loss her underlying issue is her mother’s emotional coldness. In Weiner’s symmetry, each woman starts out with an issue and each faces a challenge. At the same time, Lia, an actress who has returned home to Philly to come to grips with her baby’s death, begins following Becky around and leaving her baby gifts (Weiner overlooks the stalker-creepiness of this behavior) until she joins the friendship circle as a kind of emotional counterweight to keep the others’ problems in perspective. Weiner ( Good in Bed, 2001 In Her Shoes, 2002) follows four Philadelphia women as they face the challenges, from trivial to profound, of new motherhood, becoming friends in the process.īecky, Kelly, and Ayinde meet at a pregnancy yoga class. ![]()
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