All adults here
Straub, Emma2020
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Coming of age isn't just for kids. 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 this novel, 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.
Main title:
All adults here / Emma Straub.
Author:
Straub, Emma, author
Imprint:
London : Michael Joseph, 2020.©2020
Collation:
337 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781405921602 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
370664
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - General | STRA | Available |
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | STRA | Onloan - Due: 09 May 2024 |
| Hampton Library | Adult Fiction - General | STRA | Available |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | STRA | Available |