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All adults here / Emma Straub.

Straub, Emma, (author.).

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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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781594634697
  • ISBN: 1594634696
  • Physical Description: 356 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2020.
Subject: Adult children of aging parents > Fiction.
Mothers > Fiction.
Child rearing > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 48 of 49 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Montgomery City Public. (Show)

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  • 0 current holds with 49 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Montgomery City Public Library F STR (Text) 31927000025821 Adult Fiction Available -
Adair County Public Library A F Straub (Text) 34029002509189 Fiction Available -
Brookfield Public Library FIC STR (Text) 32512909396133 Adult Fiction Checked out 05/08/2024
Camden County Library District - Macks Creek FIC STRAUB (Text) 31320003744948 Adult Fiction Available -
Cameron Public Library FIC STR (Text) 32311111193685 Adult Fiction Available -
Cape Girardeau Public Library STR (Text) 33042004699479 Adult Fiction Available -
Carthage Public Library FIC Straub, Emma (Text) 34MO2001806394 Adult Fiction Available -
Caruthersville Public Library F STR (Text) 38417100511254 Fiction Available -
Cass County Library-Harrisonville F STR 2020 (Text) 0002205635234 Adult Fiction Available -
Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center F STR 2020 (Text) 0002205635218 Adult Fiction Available -

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All Adults Here : A Novel
All Adults Here : A Novel
by Straub, Emma
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All Adults Here : A Novel


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 "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 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 , and the forthcoming novel This Time Tomorrow . 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.

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