All Adults Here

Hardcover, 356 pages

English language

Published May 8, 2020 by Riverhead Books.

ISBN:
978-1-59463-469-7
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4 stars (5 reviews)

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 intentionally 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 …

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I haven't read anything by Emma Straub before and I'm finding it hard to describe this book. On one hand, it reads a bit like chick lit in that it feels a bit light and breezy in tone and one of the characters is in a soap-worthy situation. However, there's a lot more going on – characters are wrestling with bigger questions centered around identity – so it feels unfair to dismiss this as fluff when it might just be skill that allows her to tackle meaty issues with a featherweight touch. In any case, this is a good summer read and I'll check out more of her stuff.

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Family Drama
  • Parenting
  • Adulthood
  • Coming of Age
  • Growing Old
  • LGBT+