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All Adults Here: A Novel av Emma Straub
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All Adults Here: A Novel (utgåvan 2020)

av Emma Straub (Författare)

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"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"--… (mer)
Medlem:jcacker
Titel:All Adults Here: A Novel
Författare:Emma Straub (Författare)
Info:Riverhead Books (2020), 368 pages
Samlingar:Ditt bibliotek
Betyg:****
Taggar:Ingen/inga

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Family dynamics when long time widowed mother introduces her female partner to the family. Interesting but confusing with the non -gender specific names, like Porter and August. It was OK. ( )
  LivelyLady | Mar 19, 2024 |
This novel has plenty of things going on, all centred around the Strick family and Astrid, mother of three grown-up children. She and two of her children live in a small town in the Hudson Valley. Astrid witnesses an accident involving a woman she knows and this gives her a jolt reminding her our time here is limited and she sets out to be honest from now on. Her granddaughter, Cecelia, comes to stay.with Astrid and Astrid tells her family her big secret. The reader meets all Astrid's children and each of them has issues around parenting and being adults. One has two young children and has purchased the vacant shop in the centre of town, another is pregnant and having an affair with a married man and another is struggling to support his daughter. Cecilia also has stuff going on and with her friend August. As I said there is a lot going on. Not all the ends are tied by the finish of the novel so if that is important to you then it isn't the read for you. I found it to be a solid read that kept me interested, I never got lost with who was who despite the big cast and it has a cosy family feel. ( )
  CarolKub | Aug 3, 2023 |
A witty, romantic novel that follows the matriarch of the Strick family, Astrid, as she navigates the complexities of family, love, and identity. When Astrid witnesses a bus accident that forces her to confront her own mortality, she begins to reexamine her relationships with her adult children and the secrets that have been kept within the family. Straub's distinctive style and voice make this both a poignant and humorous read. ( )
  Cam_Torrens | Mar 17, 2023 |
The author hits a LOT of hot button issues, and there's a lot going on in this story (infidelity, gender, sexual orientation, abortion, and more). Some of it I found infuriating; some of it was just not that exciting. As an audiobook, it kept my attention enough to keep going, but the sheer number of issues kept the author from going very deep into any of them. ( )
  CarolHicksCase | Mar 12, 2023 |
Great character-driven book about a dysfunctional family with lots of intertwining stories. ( )
  ginniel | Mar 6, 2023 |
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Astrid Strick had never liked Barbara Baker, not for a single day of their forty-year acquaintance, but when Barbara was hit and killed by the empty, speeding school bus at the intersection of Main and Morrison streets on the eastern side of the town roundabout, Astrid knew that her life had changed, the shock of which was indistinguishable from relief.
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"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"--

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