Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. From a teenager coming to terms with her father's disappearance to a moving portrait of men's fears about commitment and love, Weiner's stories explore those transformative moments in our every day.

We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with her new baby late one Friday night, when she wanders onto her ex's online wedding registry and wonders what if she had wound up with the guy not taken. We stumble on Good in Bed's Bruce Guberman, liquored-up and ready for anything on the night of his best friend's bachelor party, until stealing his girlfriend's tiny rat terrier becomes more complicated than he'd planned. We find Jessica Norton listing her beloved New York City apartment in the hope of winning her broker's heart. And we follow an unlikely friendship between two very different new mothers, and the choices that bring them together—and pull them apart.

The Guy Not Taken demonstrates Weiner's amazing ability to create characters who "feel like they could be your best friend" ( Janet Maslin ) and to find hope and humor, longing and love in the hidden comers of our common experiences,

Jennifer Weiner is also the author of four novels— Good In Bed, In Her Shoes , which was made into a major motion picture, Little Earthquakes , and Goodnight Nobody . A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Philadelphia with her family. 

Mary Catherine Garrison has appeared on Broadway in Rabbit Hole, Assassins and The Man Who Came To Dinner . Her Film and Television roles include Inconceivable as a series regular, How To Deal and guest appearances on Law and Order .

Jordan Bridges' film credits include Mona Lisa Smile, Frequency , and The New Suit . He starred as 'Nick Potter' in the NBC drama Conviction .