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WHEN WE WERE BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL - JILLIAN MED...

?Two parts Gone Girl  two parts Notes on a Scandal. . .will play with your expectations about
who's the villain and who's the victim.? ? Jennifer Weiner  USA Today The acclaimed 
bestselling author of This Could Hurt returns with her biggest  boldest novel yet?an
electrifying  twisty  and deeply emotional family drama  set on Manhattan's glittering Upper
East Side  that explores the dark side of love  the limits of loyalty  and the high cost of
truth. You can have everything  and still not have enough. Cassie Quinn may only be
twenty-three  but she knows a few things. One: money can't buy happiness  but it's certainly
better to have it. Two: family matters most. Three: her younger brother Billy is not a rapist.
When Billy  a junior at Princeton  is arrested for assaulting his ex-girlfriend  Cassie races
home to Manhattan to join forces with her big brother Nate and their parents  Lawrence and
Eleanor. The Quinns scramble to hire the best legal minds money can buy  but Billy fits the
all-too-familiar sex-offender profile?white  athletic  and privileged?that makes headlines and
sways juries. Meanwhile  Cassie struggles to understand why Billy's ex Diana would go this far
even if the breakup was painful. And she knows how the end of first love can destroy someone:
Her own years-long affair with a powerful  charismatic man left her shattered  and she's only
recently regained her footing. As reporters converge outside their Upper East Side landmark
building  the Quinns gird themselves for a media-saturated trial  and Cassie vows she'll do
whatever it takes to save Billy. But what if that means exposing her own darkest secrets to the
world? Lightning-paced and psychologically astute as it rockets toward an explosive ending 
When We Were Bright and Beautiful is a dazzling novel that asks: who will pay the price when
the truth is revealed?

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