AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!
"In a time when all we want is hope, it's a beautiful book to reach
for." -Jenna Bush Hager
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"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
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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.
