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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. 208 pages first pub 2017 ISBN/UID: 9780544824249. 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.īut when Andrea's niece finally arrives, born with a heartbreaking ailment, the Bern family is forced to reexamine what really matters. 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. Attenbergs next novel, All Grown Up, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the US in March 2017, and in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Holland in 20172018. 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.

Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - March 7th, 2017 Jami Attenberg (Author) FORMAT Paperback 14.99 13.94 Available add to cart add to wishlist Description 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.

All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg