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All adults here / Emma Straub.

Straub, Emma, (author.).

Summary:

"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 years 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 13-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"-- Provided by publisher.
After Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident, a repressed memory from decades years earlier makes her realize she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been. Youngest son Nicky is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter Porter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest, Elliot, seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. Which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? Who decides which apologies really count? -- adapted from back cover

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593171806
  • ISBN: 0593171802
  • Physical Description: 481 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First large print edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2020]
Subject: Adult children of aging parents > Fiction.
Mothers > Fiction.
Parenthood > Fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Fiction.
Birth order > Fiction.
Dysfunctional families > Fiction.
Large type books.
FICTION / Family Life.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Women.
Parenthood.
Large type books.
Dysfunctional families.
Birth order.
Adult children of aging parents.
Brothers and sisters.
Child rearing.
Mothers.
Genre: Large type books.
Novels.
Humorous fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Novels.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Branch District Library.

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