Title: All Adults Here
Author: Emma Straub
Published: 2020
Call #: FIC STRAUB
After Astrid Strict witnesses an acquaintance get struck by a school bus in the middle of town, memories are stirred, and she begins questioning her black or white approach to life. Astrid’s three children are all on a quest for impossible dreams. Her youngest is perpetually soul searching, trying to make his late father proud. Her oldest holds himself up to impossible standards in a career he has never enjoyed, both of which are a mystery to the entire family. Her middle child can’t grow out of her adolescent days, including her high school boyfriend. Until this day, Astrid considered herself a pretty good mom. Though, when she really starts to think back, perhaps she wasn’t entirely blameless for her children’s mishaps.
In All Adults Here, author Emma Straub utilizes insight and wit to show how family dynamics play into all our decisions in life in some way. Straub explores many social issues, including the complexity of sexuality, gender identity and infidelity. She wisely envelopes those issues into parent / child, sibling, or friend relationships. As consequences bubble up, more truth is revealed and the reader slowly sees more layers of these characters, and how they came to be the way they are.
Have you ever felt like you missed the mark? How about messed up as a parent, child or sibling? Then you will fit right in with the Strict family. Find out if family can overpower in the end or if the truth weighs them all down.
Erin I.
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