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Author:

Straub, Emma, author.

Title:

All adults here [large print] / Emma Straub.

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publisher:

Random House,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

481 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Adult children of aging parents--Fiction.
Mothers--Fiction.
Child rearing--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Large type books.
Domestic fiction.

Summary:

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 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 this book, 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.

ISBN:

0593171802
9780593171806

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1139482684

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

YAPC771 -- Bondurant Community Library (Bondurant)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

WKPE185 -- Cherokee Public Library (Cherokee)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)

KIPB845 -- Hospers Public Library (Hospers)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)

FGPD194 -- New Hampton Public Library (New Hampton)

HIPC765 -- Pocahontas Public Library (Pocahontas)

NLPA993 -- Rowan Public Library (Rowan) — LP AF STR

WAPD715 -- Sheldon Public Library (Sheldon)

WHPE115 -- Storm Lake Public Library (Storm Lake)

RFPC397 -- Stuart Public Library (Stuart)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

CXPC586 -- Keck Memorial Library (Wapello)

CQPE926 -- Washington Free Public Library (Washington)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)