A Big, Complicated Family — And Their Mistakes — In 'All Adults Here'
Author and bookstore owner Emma Straub's new novel reminds us how lives can change in an instant — not that we may need that reminder too much right now.
is a modern family saga of three generations thrown together, whether they like it or not — and a lot of the time, they don't. It begins with a bang, when Astrid Strick sees a lifelong friend she'd never much "Really what it does is it makes Astrid, who's the main character of the book, realize that there are a lot of things that she wishes she'd done differently as a parent," Straub says. "And the book is really about how the choices we make and the mistakes we make stay with us for decades, if not forever ... It's a big, complicated family book. So it's equal opportunity for choices and mistakes. They're all doing things their family members would rather they do differently."
