I have mixed feelings about the whole "chick lit" genre. On one hand I like it a bit, bot one the other hand I find it too superficial for my taste. Maybe it is just me but I don’t sit around talking about attempting to "get" a man or anything else that the chick-lit  genre typically covers.

So what possed me to read Little Earthquakes? I have read some of her earlier works and I like how she includes heavier women and how she portrays them  in  her novels. I feel I can relate to at least one character in her books and that goes a long way in getting  me interested enough to read.

"Little Earthquakes" has multiple stories wrapped up in one novel. The women in the novel have all given birth and through different events become friends and then a "Little Earthquake" happens to each.  The way she portrays the aftermath of each earthquake is believable.