How to Be a Grown-Up

Zusatztext Praise for Between You and Me : “Pop star craziness meets Nanny Diaries wit and social commentary? Yes! please!" Informationen zum Autor Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus are the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nanny Diaries ! which was made into a motion picture! Citizen Girl ! Dedication ! Nanny Returns ! Between You and Me ! The First Affair ! and their young adult novels! The Real Real and Over You . They work together in New York City. For more information visit EmmaAndNicola.com. How to Be a Grown-Up Chapter One Although Labor Day was late that year, the heat still sat on the back of my neck like a wet towel. I stood on the porch with my three-year-old, Maya, and watched through the trees for a car kicking up dust on the road. After two weeks at my mother-in-law’s place outside Woodstock, NY, with no air-conditioning and no WiFi, we were both Ready To Go. “Rory, honey!” she called from inside. I cringed. Terms of endearment were never a good omen. “Yes, Val?” “Did Maya touch my dream catcher?” Maya shook her head, her ponytail, still wet from the swimming hole, swiping back and forth across my thigh. “I don’t think so, Val,” I replied. “You were really clear with her about what not to touch!” “If you say so.” I liked Val, more than most other women like their mother-in-laws, but one more hour of trying to be polite in that humidity and something Edward Albee was going to break out between us. The original plan had been that my husband, Blake, would be with us for the whole trip. We’d hike the Catskill Mountains with our ten-year-old, Wynn, and take both kids to the man-made beaches along the Esopus Creek. But then Blake got yet another callback for this Netflix series he’d been auditioning for and had to jump on a plane to LA at the last minute. I was deeply rooting for him to get this part, rooting from the subatomic particles that flurried in my atoms. He needed it. We needed it. Blake was that rare animal, a professional working actor, and he had been since he was a kid. But after Maya was born, the flow of residuals slowed to a trickle, revealing our income’s instability like a cracked riverbed. Our whole summer, our whole lives, were now coming down to his landing this role, which was as within his power as winning the lottery. “Mommy, listen!” Maya started jumping and pointing. The screen door squeaked open, and Wynn ran out to join us on the porch just as we glimpsed the rental car coming up the drive. “Yay!” I joined in their happy dance before bending to grab a duffel. The car cleared the maples and there he was. Blake Turner. Sitting at the wheel of a red convertible. I looked down at our two weeks’ worth of clothes and toys and sports equipment. Even if Maya sat on my shoulders we wouldn’t fit. I was about to open my mouth and ask some variation on, What the what, Blake?! But then I caught his face. Despite seeing his kids for the first time in weeks, something that would normally make him literally do cartwheels, he was struggling to smile. “Well?” Val came out. “Did you get it?” Marrying an actor was not something I’d set out to do. It was, in fact, the embodiment of my parents’ worst fears—any parent’s, probably. Right up there with your child joining a cult—or having no sense of humor. Certainly for Sheryl and Randy McGovern of Oneonta, New York, this was nowhere in the plan. My parents had met at accounting school, and I’d like to be able to tell you they’re not exactly what you’re picturing—that they have a leather fetish or even high cholesterol. But they are exactly, endearingly, the people you would trust t...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Nicola Kraus, Emma McLaughlin, Emma/ Kraus McLaughlin
• Edition: Pocket Books USA
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 28.07.2015, retardé
• EAN: 9781451643459
• ISBN: 978-1-4516-4345-9
• Pages: 256
• Catégorie: Littérature > Littérature (récits)