The book starts out with quirky, delightful characters. 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. 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. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. But to what consequence?Īstrid’s youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own.
Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she’d been to her three, now-grown children. 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. Is there anything that she would change if she could?. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some past events take on new meaning.
But it isn’t just her adolescent body that shocks her, or seeing her high school crush-it’s her dad, the vital, charming, forty-something version of her father with whom she is reunited.
When she wakes up the next morning, she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her sixteenth birthday. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, and her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected.
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