Emma Straub, All Adults Here


Emma Straub, All Adults Here
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  "A totally engaging  and smart book about the absolutely marvelous messiness of what makes up  family; a wonderful book." - Elizabeth Strout, New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Olive Kitteridge and Olive, Again
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.