All Grown Up

A national bestseller from the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins, All Grown Up is a wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection. Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she''s a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it''s what she leaves unsaid--she''s alone, a drinker, a former artist, a shrieker in bed, captain of the sinking ship that is her flesh--that feels the most true. Everyone around her seems to have an entirely different idea of what it means to be an adult: her best friend, Indigo, is getting married; her brother--who miraculously seems unscathed by their shared tumultuous childhood--and sister-in-law are having a hoped-for baby; and her friend Matthew continues to wholly devote himself to making dark paintings at the cost of being flat broke. But when Andrea''s niece finally arrives, born with a heartbreaking ailment, the Bern family is forced to reexamine what really matters. Will this drive them together or tear them apart? Told in gut-wrenchingly honest, mordantly comic vignettes, All Grown Up is a breathtaking display of Jami Attenberg''s power as a storyteller, a whip-smart examination of one woman''s life, lived entirely on her own terms.>

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jami Attenberg
• Edition: Ecco Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781328915320
• ISBN: 978-1-328-91532-0
• Pages: 224
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 203 mm x 14 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/FICTION, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, LITERATURE: WOMEN'S LITERATURE, FICTION: Small Town & Rural *, FICTION: Humorous / General, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Urban & Street Lit, Street fiction / urban fiction, Literature / Women's Literature, Women's Literature / Literature/Fiction