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All Adults Here: A Read with Jenna Pick (a Novel)
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"In a time when all we want is hope, it's a beautiful book to reach for." -Jenna Bush Hager
"Literary sunshine."--New York Times "The queen of the summer novel."--Entertainment Weekly "Brimming with kindness, forgiveness, humor and love and yet (magically) also a page turner that held me captive until it was finished. This is Emma Straub's absolute best and the world will love it. I love it." --Ann Patchett
"An immensely charming and warmhearted book. It's a vacation for the soul."--Vox
A warm, funny, and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family--as the kids become parents, grandchildren become teenagers, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes. From the New York Times bestselling author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers. When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days decades earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. But who gets to decide, so many years later, which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? Who decides which apologies really count? It might be that only Astrid's thirteen-year-old granddaughter and her new friend really understand the courage it takes to tell the truth to the people you love the most. In All Adults Here, Emma Straub's unique alchemy of wisdom, humor, and insight come together in a deeply satisfying story about adult siblings, aging parents, high school boyfriends, middle school mean girls, the lifelong effects of birth order, and all the other things that follow us into adulthood, whether we like them to or not.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9781594634703
EAN:
9781594634703
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
384
Authors:
Emma Straub
Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Published Date: 2021-13-04
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Parenting adult children and living your own life produces pain and pride. With partners and children there are so many personalities in the mix that feelings both past and present need to be navigated. It is important to know and learn how each honestly feels and to accept one another. Families should be the love and support system each person needs. It is a worthy goal.
Interesting book, if not particularly well written. If you’re looking for something to just wile away the time that might have a few interesting pages in it, then this would be it.
Well this book covers a lot of timely issues. I know the author writes good books. This isn't about the issues its about the over discriptive writing. I got to where I would read the first part and skim through the chapter to continue on with the story that was at the beginning. Just tell the stories without history, psychology of why, and the angst . Well a little may be necessary? This reader found it too much.
I love family dramas, but I don’t like ones that are heavy on romance or melodrama. All Adults Here has romance and drama, but it is nothing like the soap operas I often find in this genre. Straub has created a winning cast of characters, and even though it’s slow going to begin with before you know everybody, once you meet all of the characters, it’s a joy to see them navigate these few months of their lives. Highly recommended!
“All Adults Here” is a title that drew me to read this book. I believe Ms. Straud and I agree that “adult” is a misnomer and certainly not a goal to strive for. Her characters, old and young, exemplify that if we were all adults, life would be very boring indeed.
