All Adults Here: A Novel

Plot

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 "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 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.

Cuando Astrid Strick es testigo de un accidente de autobús escolar en el centro de la ciudad, se desprende de un empujón de un recuerdo reprimido de sus días de paternidad joven décadas antes. De repente, Astrid se da cuenta de que no era la madre que pensaba que había sido para sus tres hijos, que ya eran adultos. Pero ¿a qué consecuencia?

El hijo menor de Astrid está a la deriva y desenfocado, cometiendo sus propios errores de crianza. Su hija está embarazada pero lucha por renunciar a su propia adolescencia. Y su hijo mayor parece medir su vida adulta de acuerdo con estándares que nadie más comparte. Pero, ¿quién puede decidir, tantos años después, qué lapsus de hace mucho tiempo fueron los que importaron? ¿Quién decide qué disculpas realmente cuentan? Puede ser que solo la nieta de trece años de Astrid y su nueva amiga realmente entiendan el coraje que se necesita para decir la verdad a las personas que más amas.

En All Adults Here, la alquimia única de sabiduría, humor y perspicacia de Emma Straub se unen en una historia profundamente satisfactoria sobre hermanos adultos, padres ancianos, novios de secundaria, chicas malas de secundaria, los efectos permanentes del orden de nacimiento y todo lo demás. cosas que nos siguen hasta la edad adulta, nos gusten o no.