All Adults Here

"A totally engaging and smart book about the absolutely marvelous messiness of what makes up family; a wonderful book." - Elizabeth Strout New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Olive Kitteridge and Olive Again 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 shed been to her three now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrids 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 Astrids 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 Straubs 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.