On a Saturday in D.C., Weiner shows how committed she is to one of her favorite pastimes while talking about her new book, “The Breakaway.”
That much is clear on a recent Saturday in D.C. The humidity is hovering around 88 percent, but Weiner,
The cover of the book, a portion of which adorns the jersey Weiner wears, features a woman biking along a serpentine road.
But when Weiner’s mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March 2021 and died just two months later, biking became about something more vital than movement; it became a coping mechanism.How far does one have to go to outrun their grief? At first, Weiner would bike 20 miles or so, and that kind of distance would exhaust her enough to stop her brain from whirring, at least temporarily.
“Every parent does the best they can with what they have,” Weiner says. “The problem is, what they have a lot of times is trauma and damage and bad messages in their heads.”As she so often does in her novels, Weiner complicates the narrative with dashes of nuance — villains can be victims, even a man who’s publicly shamed on TikTok as a #KissingBandit — while ensuring that the characters we care about land on their feet.
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