The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits (Deluxe Limited Edition): A Heartfelt Sister Story about Love, Secrets, and Second Chances

Enjoyed the ride.

Jennifer Weiner’s The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits is a journey back in time to the early aughts, “when diet culture was ascendant and tabloids were at the peak of their power.” This is a tribute to every woman musician who told her own story. “Griffin’s voice calls to mind a panoply of pop-rock divas…You can hear an encyclopedia’s worth of references in Griffin’s singing: Aretha’s vibrato; Mariah’s melisma; the powder-puff, featherlight sweetness of GoGos, the ironic, cool-girl remove of the Pretenders or Liz Phair; the raspy rocker-chick of Heart . . . but Griffin has a sound all her own.” “Listening to a Griffin Sisters song felt like walking down a familiar street in the city where you’d always lived and looking up to see a building you’d never noticed, with gargoyles perched on its cornices, and the mouth of a dark alley you’d never seen before just beyond it. The songs invited you to keep walking until you realized you were somewhere else entirely. A different neighborhood. Even a different world.” “This was inevitable. It was as if they were two stones that had been rolling toward each other since the world was made, working their way slowly around the earth’s diameter until they met…Zoe needed Cassie, to write the songs, the same way it seemed like Cassie needed Zoe to get on a stage. Maybe they really couldn’t do it without each other.” For the mother and daughter and aunt, who have found their way back to each other and who love each other imperfectly as best they could. “For the boy, or the girl, who was out there somewhere, waiting to meet that special person, or to find out who to be.” For the lover who’d broken your heart, for the loved one who had cared for you, then hurt you. “For the person you loved in spite of yourself, because you couldn’t do anything else.” For all the songs yet to be written. For talent inherited. For these gifts and more, we are grateful. Jennifer Weiner’s The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits is transcendent, a shimmering miracle.