All Adults Here
«All Adults Here is a master class on the small-scale American drama. There's a wry wink in the title; being grown up is no guarantee that you have it figured out. Ensconced in their upstate New York bubble, the Strick clan is the perfect show case...Yet this warm, optimistic novel argues that one should keep trying, regardless. All Adults Here affirms the value of community and family, no matter the strife that may rise up within them»
Vogue US
Witty, astute, and irresistibly readable, All Adults Here is a novel about how to survive inside a modern family from the New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers Les mer
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Witty, astute, and irresistibly readable, All Adults Here is a novel about how to survive inside a modern family from the New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 368
- ISBN
- 9781405921596
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«All Adults Here is a master class on the small-scale American drama. There's a wry wink in the title; being grown up is no guarantee that you have it figured out. Ensconced in their upstate New York bubble, the Strick clan is the perfect show case...Yet this warm, optimistic novel argues that one should keep trying, regardless. All Adults Here affirms the value of community and family, no matter the strife that may rise up within them»
Vogue US
«One of our favourite funny and kind books of the year . . . perfectly pitched summer reading»
Stylist
«Set over the course of an upstate New York summer, this shrewd, kindly tale embraces a topical spread of inter-generational challenges, yielding tart truths about love, class and family. It's spry and satisfying»
Mail on Sunday
«A warm, funny novel»
SheerLuxe
«Written with true warmth and wit »
Bella
«Praise for Emma Straub»
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«It's the beautifully drawn, vibrant characters that make this smart, compelling novel so irresistible»
«Funny, poignant and beautifully observed»
«Straub writes beautifully and amusingly . . . hard to beat for sheer charm and gentle wit»
Daily Mail
«Will make you question your entire childhood, and how much your parents influenced it as you learn one mother's perspective of what went right and what went wrong with her own family»
Marie Claire
«There's refuge to be found in stories of everyday people going about their lives...Emma Straub has become adept at finding amusement in the mundane, and her newest, All Adults Here, might just be her best yet»
Oprah Magazine
«Perceptive and fun»
AARP
«It's good company»
Leigh Haber, Book Editor at <i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i>
«In her witty new novel, All Adults Here, Emma Straub examines adolescence, ageing, gender, and sexuality through the nuanced experiences of three generations of a New York family»
Harper's Bazaar US
«Come for the close examination of parental child roles, stay for goats»
Good Housekeeping US
«Pulsating with perceptive wit . . . entertaining»
Sunday Post
«Great for fans of Liane Moriarty»
Harpers Bazaar
«Warm, witty, perceptive. Anne Tyler on laughing gas»
Saga Magazine
«A novel full of poignant insights into family»
Woman & Home
«Busting with witty and poignant observations about the messiness of family»
Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
«Emma Straub has done it again! All Adults Here introduces us to the Stricks, a delightfully flawed family, with matriarch Astrid at the centre...I know I've been having trouble adulting during this time (seriously, I have to cook, again?!), and the characters in this novel feel like they're struggling right alongside me»
Read It Forward
«All Adults Here will make you question your entire childhood»
Marie Claire US
«If you've spent lockdown at home with the family, this one might just ring true for you. A witty, warm and thoroughly entertaining novel. Relatable»
Luxe
«Likely to be the book that every single person will be reading this summer »
Bookpage
«An affecting family saga that juggles issues as weighty as abortion, gender identity and bullying with ease»
USA Today
«A warm, funny novel about the lifecycle of one family»
Sheerluxe
«A funny and insightful look at love and relationships»
Good Housekeeping
«A smart, cool sensibility »
Elle
«Lovely, satisfying»
«Smart and fresh, offering new insights into the lives of people all around us»
Brooklyn Magazine
«Thoughtful and hilarious»
Real Simple
«It would be easy to compare Straub to other masters of the genre like Meg Wolitzer or Jennifer Egan, but she's already a master in her own right»
The Millions
«Hugely talented . . . intelligent holiday reading»
«A novel about how we try and fail at every age and yet somehow survive. It is brimming with kindness, forgiveness, humour and love and yet (magically) is also a page turner that held me captive until it was finished. This is Emma Straub's absolute best and the world will love it»
Ann Patchett
«In All Adults Here, Straub cements her status as a master of the domestic ensemble drama. While readers will relate to the comfortable familiarity of Straub's work, it has also taken on an unexpected air of escapism»
Time Magazine
«A wonderful read»
Elizabeth Strout
«Straub writes with such verve and sympathetic understanding of her characters . . . Reading this novel has all the pleasures of reading one of Anne Tyler's compelling family portraits»
New York Times
«Smart and funny and warm, the kind of novel you fall into and don't ever want to end, which is exactly what we need now»
The Times
«The book has already roused a flood of fans clamoring to find out how Astrid's story ends»
Reader's Digest
«The warm and funny novel only Emma Straub can deliver to us in this time of need»
Paper Magazine
«Straub is consistently excellent»
Book Riot
«A precise and observant writer whose supple prose carries the story along without a snag. Straub's characters are a quirky and interesting bunch . . . it's a pleasure spending time with them»
Kirkus
«Wise and often hilarious»
Buzzfeed
«Readers will devour this witty and warmly satisfying novel»
Publishers Weekly
«Devilishly observed»
Booklist
«Sprinkled with humour and insight»
Library Journal
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