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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Jessica Pearce Rotondi & Lauren Francis-Sharma
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery\, in partnership with Zyzzyva\, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch\, a weekly salon\, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the coronavirus pandemic who have banded together to support one another. This event features Jessica Pearce Rotondi (What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family’s Search for Answers) & Lauren Francis-Sharma (Book of the Little Ax). \n** Please note ** \n>  The books may be listed as out of stock — this is because we’re shipping directly from the warehouse to your door! If you’d like to purchase the books\, please do so through the links above or below\, at the bottom of this page. \n>  You can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the dates and join us! \n>  This event will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n\nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy What We Inherit and/or Book of the Little Ax and we’ll deliver them directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nWhat We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family’s Search for Answers by Jessica Pearce Rotondi \nIn the wake of her mother’s death\, Jessica Pearce Rotondi uncovers boxes of letters\, declassified CIA reports\, and newspaper clippings that bring to light a family ghost: her uncle Jack\, who disappeared during the CIA-led “Secret War” in Laos in 1972. The letters lead her across Southeast Asia in search of the truth that has eluded her family for decades. What she discovers takes her closer to the mother she lost and the mysteries of a secret war that changed the rules of engagement forever. \nIn 1943\, 19-year-old Edwin Pearce jumps from a burning B-17 bomber over Germany. Missing in action for months\, his parents finally learn he is a prisoner of war in Stalag 17. Ed survives nearly three years in prison camp and a march across the Alps before returning home. \nEd’s eldest son and namesake\, Edwin “Jack\,” follows his father into the Air Force. But on the night of March 29\, 1972\, Jack’s plane vanishes over the mountains bordering Vietnam and Ed’s past comes roaring into the present. \nIn 2009\, Ed’s granddaughter\, Jessica Pearce Rotondi\, is grieving her mother’s death when she stumbles across declassified CIA documents\, letters\, and maps that reveal her family’s decades-long search for Jack. What We Inherit is Rotondi’s story of her own hunt for answers as she retraces her grandfather’s 1973 path across Southeast Asia in search of his son. \nAn excavation of inherited trauma on a personal and national scale\, What We Inherit reveals the power of a father’s refusal to be silenced and a daughter’s quest to rediscover her voice in the wake of loss. As Rotondi nears the last known place Jack was seen alive\, she grows closer to understanding the mystery that has haunted her family for generations―and the destructive impact of a family secret so big it encompassed an entire war. \nJessica Pearce Rotondi is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Her work has been published by The History Channel\, Reader’s Digest\, Vogue\, Salon\, Atlas Obscura\, The Huffington Post\, and Refinery29. Previously\, she was a senior editor at The Huffington Post and a staff member at the PEN American Center\, the world’s oldest literary human rights organization. Her first job in New York City was at St. Martin’s Press\, where she had a “room of her own” in the Flatiron Building to fill with books. She grew up in New England and is a graduate of Brown University. What We Inherit is her first book. Connect with Jessica on Twitter and Instagram @JessicaRotondi or visit JessicaPearceRotondi.com. \n\n  \n  \n  \nBook of the Little Ax by Lauren Francis-Sharma \nIn 1796 Trinidad\, young Rosa Rendón quietly but purposefully rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright\, competitive\, and opinionated\, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house\, for it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she\, alone\, views as her birthright. But when her homeland changes from Spanish to British rule\, it becomes increasingly unclear whether its free black property owners―Rosa’s family among them―will be allowed to keep their assets\, their land\, and ultimately\, their freedom. \nBy 1830\, Rosa is living among the Crow Nation in Bighorn\, Montana with her children and her husband\, Edward Rose\, a Crow chief. Her son Victor is of the age where he must seek his vision and become a man. But his path forward is blocked by secrets Rosa has kept from him. So Rosa must take him to where his story began and\, in turn\, retrace her own roots\, acknowledging along the way\, the painful events that forced her from the middle of an ocean to the rugged terrain of a far-away land. \n  \nLauren Francis-Sharma is the author of Book of the Little Axe and ‘Til the Well Runs Dry\, her first novel\, which was awarded the Honor Fiction Prize by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Lauren is a contributor to Marita Golden’s anthology\, Us Against Alzheimer’s\, and her more recent work can be found at ElectricLit.com\, Barrelhouse.com and The Lily. Lauren is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan Law School. She is also a MacDowell Fellow and the Assistant Director of Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College. \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-zyzzyva-the-booksmith-present-lockdown-lit-lunch-with-jessica-pearce-rotondi-lauren-francis-sharma/
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl with Kate Hudson (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author. \nJoin Kate Hudson in conversation with Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl\, the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the Rad Women book series. \nThe three women will discuss Kate and Miriam’s newest book\, Rad American History A-Z\, an illustrated history book that explores centuries of radical and transformative political\, social\, and cultural moments and movements in American history. They’ll touch on multiple topics including the importance of reading and learning about our nations’ lesser-known histories\, engaging in honest conversation with their children about current events\, and broadening our minds to create a just and sustainable future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-kate-schatz-and-miriam-klein-stahl-with-kate-hudson-virtual-event/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: A.H. Kim and Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday July 14th for A.H. Kim discussing her new novel A Good Family with Vanessa Hua on Zoom. \nZoom Login \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81092364570 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81092364570#  or +12532158782\,\,81092364570#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 810 9236 4570\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kjMDC3vEC \nPraise for A Good Family \n“A story of money\, family\, who you can trust\, and the extremes to which one will go for blood. I couldn’t put it down.” –Lisa Ling\, host of CNN’s This Is Life \nAbout A Good Family \nBeth is the darling of God Halsa\, a pharmaceutical giant\, and she’s got the outrageous salary and lifestyle to prove it. Until she lands in white-collar women’s prison\, thanks to a high-profile whistleblower suit. \nSam\, Beth’s husband\, used to be the town’s most eligible bachelor\, and he’s never had to do anything for himself. Until his wife goes to jail\, and he’s left to raise two daughters on his own. \nLise\, the au pair\, is the whistleblower. But is she? Everyone knows she’s not clever enough to have done it alone. \nHannah\, Sam’s sister\, is devoted to her family. There’s nothing she wouldn’t do for them. \nEva\, Beth’s sister\, is the smart one. (Read: not the pretty one.) Her life seems perfect on the surface\, but sibling rivalry runs deep. \nMartin\, Beth’s brother\, is the firstborn\, the former golden boy turned inside-the Beltway businessman. But what is he hiding? \nSomeone knows something. Someone betrayed Beth. \nThis is the story of the Min-Lindstroms. This is the story of the all-American family as it implodes under the weight of secrets\, lies and the unchecked desire for wealth and power.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-a-h-kim-and-vanessa-hua/
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SUMMARY:Black Girls Have Something to Say: Lisa Moore Ramee\, Mariama J. Lockington\, Janae Marks\, Alicia Williams
DESCRIPTION:Black girls have something to say and we are proud to be hosting this panel of incredibly talented middle-grade authors to celebrate the launch of Lisa Moore Ramee’s highly anticipated new novel\, Something to Say. \n\n \n\nLisa Moore Ramee is one of our favorite authors. We launched and evangelized for her debut novel A Good Kind of Trouble\, a Walter Dean Myers Honor Book\, and are so excited to launch Something to Say\, an unforgettable story about finding your voice—and finding your people. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEleven-year-old Jenae doesn’t have any friends—and she’s just fine with that. She’s so good at being invisible in school\, it’s almost like she has a superpower\, like her idol\, Astrid Dane. At home\, Jenae has plenty of company\, like her no-nonsense mama; her older brother\, Malcolm\, who is home from college after a basketball injury; and her beloved grandpa\, Gee. Then a new student shows up at school—a boy named Aubrey—and Jenae can’t figure out why he keeps popping up everywhere she goes. The more she tries to push him away\, the more he seems determined to be her friend. Despite herself\, Jenae starts getting used to having him around. But when the two are paired up for a class debate about the proposed name change for their school\, Jenae knows this new friendship has an expiration date. Aubrey is desperate to win and earn a coveted spot on the debate team. But Jenae would do almost anything to avoid speaking up in front of an audience—including risking the first real friendship she’s ever had. \nLisa will be in conversation with Mariama J. Lockington\, Janae Marks\, and Alicia Williams \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMariama J Lockington is the author of For Black Girls Like Me\, a lyrical coming-of-age story about family\, sisterhood\, music\, race\, and identity that draws on some of the emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanae Marks is the author of From the Desk of Zoe Washington\, a captivating mystery full of heart\, as one courageous girl questions assumptions\, searches for the truth\, and does what she believes is right—even in the face of great opposition. \nAlicia Williams is the author of Genesis Begins Again\,  which received a Newbery and Kirkus Prize honors\, was a William C. Morris Award finalist\, and for which she won the Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award for New Talent. Genesis Begins Again is a deeply sensitive and powerful novel that tells the story of a thirteen-year-old who must overcome internalized racism and a verbally abusive family to finally learn to love herself. \nDon’t miss this chance to hear what these four extraordinary authors have to say
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-girls-have-something-to-say-lisa-moore-ramee-mariama-j-lockington-janae-marks-alicia-williams/
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SUMMARY:Scott Dominic Carpenter in conversation with Don George - French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris\, little does he suspect the dramas that await: scheming neighbors\, police denunciations\, surly demonstrators\, cooking disasters\, medical mishaps—not to mention all those lectures about cheese. It turns out that nothing in the City of Light can be taken for granted\, where even trips to the grocery store lead to adventure. \nIn French Like Moi\, Carpenter guides us through the merry labyrinth of the everyday\, one hilarious faux pas after another. Through it all\, he keeps his eye on the central mystery of what makes the French French (and Midwesterners Midwestern). \nMinnesota-born and Midwest-bred\, Scott Dominic Carpenter is the author of Theory of Remainders: A Novel (named to Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Books of 2013”) and of This Jealous Earth: Stories. Winner of a Mark Twain House Royal Nonesuch Prize (2018)\, recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant\, and semi-finalist for the Many Voices Project Prize\, he has published work in a wide variety of venues\, including The Rumpus\, Silk Road\, Catapult\, South Dakota Review\, and various anthologies. He lives 45 miles from Minneapolis in Northfield\, Minnesota\, and Paris. \nDon George is the author of The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George and of Lonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Writing\, and the editor of twelve anthologies. In his 40-year career he has served as travel editor for the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle\, founder and editor of Salon.com’s Wanderlust travel site\, global travel editor for Lonely Planet\, and editor at large for National Geographic Travel. He is also the co-chair of Book Passage’s Travel Writers & Photographers Conference\, now in its 29th year. \nLarry Habegger is a travel writer\, editor\, journalist\, and teacher who has been covering the world since the 1970s. As a freelance writer for more than 30 years and syndicated columnist since 1985\, Habegger’s work has appeared in many major newspapers and magazines\, including the Los Angeles Times\, Chicago Tribune\, Travel & Leisure\, and Outside. In 1993\, he cofounded the award-winning Travelers’ Tales books with James and Tim O’Reilly\, and is currently executive editor. His latest book in the Travelers’ Tales series is The Best Travel Writing\, Volume 11.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/scott-dominic-carpenter-in-conversation-with-don-george-french-like-moi-a-midwesterner-in-paris-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:LItquake on Lockdown: A Family Divided
DESCRIPTION:Millions of families are separated today\, by circumstances of the current pandemic\, by draconian immigration policies\, and by war. Family separation has long been used as an intentional political tool to pressure\, frighten\, and terrorize. Through the lens of fiction\, we can understand the impact of such wounds\, and strengthen our shared belief in family and community connection. Authors Donna Hemans\, Aimee Liu\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Kristen Millares Young discuss their Spring 2020 novels\, and explore the paths of families torn apart. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nKristen Millares Young\nThe current Prose Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House\, Kristen Millares Young is the author of the novel Subduction. Her prize-winning investigations\, essays and book reviews appear in the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, and elsewhere. She was the researcher for The New York Times team… Read More →\n\n \nDonna Hemans\nDonna Hemans is the author of Tea by the Sea and a previous novel\, River Woman. Her short fiction has appeared in Caribbean Writer\, Crab Orchard Review\, Witness\, and Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad. She is an editor at Pree\, a Caribbean online… Read More →\n\n \nAimee Liu\nAimee Liu is the author of Glorious Boy and the previous novels Flash House\, Cloud Mountain\, and Face. Her nonfiction includes Gaining and Solitaire. Her short stories and essays have appeared in more than a dozen anthologies\, magazines\, and literary journals. She teaches in Goddard… Read More →\n\n \nEllen Meeropol\nEllen Meeropol is the author of Her Sister’s Tattoo\, and the previous novels Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest. Recent essay publications include Ms Magazine\, Lilith\, Lit Hub\, and Mom Egg Review. She is a founding member of Straw Dog Writers Guild and leads… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-a-family-divided/
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SUMMARY:Well-RED
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, July 14\, 7pm on Zoom\nfeaturing Jeanine U-C and Indigo Moor \nopen mic follows \nonline on Zoom\nFree\, register on Eventbrite! \npresented with Works/San José \nTypically featured at Works/San José art and performance center\, performance begins via Zoom at 7:00pm sharp! \nFirst 15 people to register for a free ticket get on the open mic list. Curators will email all registrants the meeting ID and password. \nEach open mic participant has 5 minutes. \nJeanine U-C won last July’s Anarchy Poetry Slam. Two of her poems were published in last year’s Caesura\, “Ash Wednesday February 14\, 2018” in the paperback version and “Punks” in the online version. Jeanine published two chapbooks: “Allowed Aloud” in 2018\, “Let Go of Detachment” in 2019. Another chapbook is forthcoming. Its title; “Too Pretty to Be Porn.” It’s taken her whole life to get to be this age. \nPoet Laureate Emeritus of Sacramento\, Indigo Moor‘s fourth book of poetry Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something\, took second place in the University of Nebraska Press’ Backwater Prize and will be published spring 2021. His second book\, Through the Stonecutter’s Window\, won Northwestern University Press’s Cave Canem prize. His first and third books\, Tap-Root and In the Room of Thirsts & Hungers\, were both part of Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Select Poetry Series. In addition to poetry\, Indigo has produced award-winning plays\, short fiction\, and essays. His stage-turned-screenplay Live! at the Excelsior was optioned as a full-length film. He is a former teacher at the Stonecoast MFA Program and a Cave Canem fellow. Indigo sits on the advisory board for both the Modesto Stanislaus Poetry Center and the Sacramento Poetry Center. A 10-year veteran of the US Navy and a twice-decorated Gulf War Veteran\, Indigo divides his time between writing\, teaching\, and Integrated Circuit Layout Engineering for computer companies.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Melissa Valentine / The Names of All the Flowers\, with Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host the launch for Melissa Valentine and her debut\, The Names of All the Flowers. She’ll be in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin (Heaven is All Goodbyes). Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which you are welcome to join via Zoom. \nWe will also be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n*Please note* Buy your copy of The Names of All the Flowers from us to be entered into a raffle for a free signed copy of Thea Matthew’s Unearth [The Flowers]! \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nMelissa and her older brother Junior grow up running around the disparate neighborhoods of 1990s Oakland\, two of six children to a white Quaker father and a black Southern mother. But as Junior approaches adolescence\, a bullying incident and later a violent attack in school leave him searching for power and a sense of self in all the wrong places; he develops a hard front and falls into drug dealing. Right before Junior’s twentieth birthday\, the family is torn apart when he is murdered as a result of gun violence. \nThe Names of All the Flowers connects one tragic death to a collective grief for all black people who die too young. A lyrical recounting of a life lost\, Melissa Valentine’s debut memoir is an intimate portrait of a family fractured by the school-to-prison pipeline and an enduring love letter to an adored older brother. It is a call for justice amid endless cycles of violence\, grief\, and trauma\, declaring: “We are all witness and therefore no one is spared from this loss.” \n\n“In this poignant\, painful\, and gorgeous memoir\, Melissa Valentine bravely explores what faces black boys and men\, through the eyes of a black woman\, sister\, daughter\, and member of a family whose lives are altered forever\, time and time again. The Names of All the Flowers encourages us to be brave too; brave enough to imagine a world that loves black people\, in all of our complexities.” – Alicia Garza\, cofounder\, Black Lives Matter \n“You will think about this book for a very long time.” – Catherine McKinley\, author of The Book of Sarahs: A Family in Parts \n“Valentine’s words on grief and trauma will stick with me for life: ‘We are all witness and therefore no one is spared from this loss.’ This is a book I know I’ll return to time and time again.” – Tyler Ford\, founding editor\, them \n“Sharp and incredibly courageous\, The Names of All the Flowers is an act of profound love\, profound service. Valentine gives herself the task of speaking the words of all of our grief\, all of our trauma\, and she does so with unexpected beauty and honesty. I could not resist this book. In the end\, it broke me.” – Carvell Wallace\, writer\, New York Times Magazine \n\nMelissa Valentine is a writer from Oakland\, CA. She earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA in creative writing from Mills College. She has been a fellow at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, and her work has appeared in Jezebel\, Guernica\, Apogee Journal\, and others. Her writing has received honorable mention from Glimmer Train and the Ardella Mills Non-fiction Award. She currently lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \n\n  \n  \n  \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker\, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled\, Someone’s Dead Already was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book Heaven Is All Goodbyes was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nTo have The Names of All the Flowers sent to your door\, order here or below. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-melissa-valentine-the-names-of-all-the-flowers-with-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:All Adults Here by Emma Straub | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, July 14\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Emma Straub’s new novel\, ALL ADULTS HERE. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81214951613. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/GGPAdultsHC\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/AdultsAB. \nMay 2020 Indie Next List\n\n“A single sudden and shocking occurrence jolts Astrid Strick — widow\, mother\, and small-town stalwart — into reassessing her life\, especially her failings with her three grown children. Even as she tries to find a path toward redemption\, it’s clear her offspring are nursing different hurts. Straub’s lovely and charming comic novel explores the messy and dissonant truths that underpin the illusions we maintain about those closest to us. No one is at fault\, and everyone is to blame. Even adults have to grow up. Utterly charming and completely engrossing.”\n— Anmiryam Budner\, Main Point Books\, Wayne\, PA \nDescription\n\nAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \nA TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!\n“In a time when all we want is hope\, it’s a beautiful book to reach for.” -Jenna Bush Hager \n“Literary sunshine.”—New York Times \n“The queen of the summer novel.”—Entertainment Weekly \n“Brimming with kindness\, forgiveness\, humor and love and yet (magically) 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. I love it.” —Ann Patchett\n \n“An immensely charming and warmhearted book. It’s a vacation for the soul.”—Vox \nA warm\, funny\, and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family–as the kids become parents\, grandchildren become teenagers\, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes. From the New York Times bestselling author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers. \nWhen Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town\, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days decades earlier. Suddenly\, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she’d been to her three\, now-grown children. But to what consequence? \nAstrid’s youngest son is drifting and unfocused\, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. But who gets to decide\, so many years later\, which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? Who decides which apologies really count? It might be that only Astrid’s thirteen-year-old granddaughter and her new friend really understand the courage it takes to tell the truth to the people you love the most. \nIn All Adults Here\, Emma Straub’s unique alchemy of wisdom\, humor\, and insight come together in a deeply satisfying story about adult siblings\, aging parents\, high school boyfriends\, middle school mean girls\, the lifelong effects of birth order\, and all the other things that follow us into adulthood\, whether we like them to or not. \nAbout the Author\n\nEmma Straub is the New York Times-bestselling author of three other novels The Vacationers\, Modern Lovers\, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures\, and the short story collection Other People We Married. Her books have been published in twenty countries. She and her husband own Books Are Magic\, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn\, New York. \nPraise For…\n\nPraise for All Adults Here: \n“Emma Straub is a perfect novelist for summer reading.” —The Wall Street Journal \n“You’ll never want to say goodbye to the Strick family of All Adults Here\, Emma Straub’s charming fourth novel.” —O\, The Oprah Magazine \n“To describe Emma Straub’s novel All Adults Here without using the word ‘charming’ is like trying to describe an accordion without using your hands. But winsome and big-hearted do fine to characterize Ms. Straub’s loosely knit\, multigenerational fourth novel …Tight\, flinty Astrid…seems like close kin to Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge.” —The Wall Street Journal \n“A master analyst of romantic relationships\, Straub trains her eye on family dynamics and small-town life in this witty and wise tale.” —People Magazine \n“Delivers a Dose of Normal Life\, Right When We Need It. . .  Straub cements her status as a master of the domestic ensemble drama.”—TIME \n“Emma Straub’s warm-hearted fourth novel confirms her reign as a patron saint of delayed adolescence.”—NPR \n“‘Literary sunshine’ is a good way to think of Straub’s work. Her writing and tone are consistently bright and straightforward; her approach to character is warm and generous . . . The main pleasures of All Adults Here ome from Straub’s wry comic instincts (a pair of hyperaggressive twin toddlers are hilariously appalling) and her gimlet eye for cultural observation  . . . Her wit extends out from the individual characters into a larger commentary on the difficulties of becoming an adult\, making this an especially rich addition to the author’s body of work.”  —The New York Times \n“A beach read with teeth.” —The New Republic \n“Undeniably pleasing . . . a kind of thinking-person’s beach read that’s maybe all the better for arriving in these strange\, landlocked times.”—Entertainment Weekly \n“It’s a credit to Straub’s gifts of wit and observation that she’s made such a loving book so alive. Reading All Adults Here\, you feel like maybe your life isn’t so small\, that its minor joys and pitfalls are worthy of literature. If only Straub could be the one to document it.”—USA Today \n“Deliciously funny and infectiously warm … It’s an ideal read for anyone trapped at home with their family while self-isolating. Read it while hiding in your bedroom from the people who are driving you crazy\, but who you’d go crazy without.” The Philadelphia Inquirer \n“There’s no drama like family drama as Emma Straub (Modern Lovers\, Other People We Married) proves in this touching\, humorous\, and eye-opening new novel.” —Town and Country  \n“Triumphant.” —The Daily Beast \n“An immensely charming and warmhearted book. It’s a vacation for the soul.”—Vox \n“A warm\, smart novel that feels both very ‘now\,’ but also timeless in its survey of a family trying to become one again.”—Salon \n“Fresh and funny. . .  ripe with the kind of juicy gossip perfect for swapping with a favorite sibling via late-night\, hushed phone calls. . . .”—The Washington Post \n“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.” —O\, The Oprah Magazine \n“The queen of the summer novel.”—Entertainment Weekly \n“Straub’s best book yet . . .excellent book-group fodder.”—The Washington Post \n“Emma Straub’s writing is witty\, informal and deceptively simple\, drawing readers in as if they’re having a conversation with a close friend.”  —BookPage \n“All Adults Here is a master class on the small-scale American drama. . . 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 \n“The perfect book to read during quarantine if your family is driving you crazy . . . a layered love story that examines\, and ultimately celebrates\, the modern\, multigenerational family dynamic.”—Parade \n“This new novel from New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and Modern Lover is at its core about family in all its loving\, messy glory… It’s a page-turner that will make you think about what binds families together and drives them apart.” —Good Morning America \n“All Adults Here is a novel about how we try and fail at every age and yet somehow survive. It is brimming with kindness\, forgiveness\, humor 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. I love it.”—Ann Patchett\, New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth \n“A totally engaging and smart book about the absolutely marvelous messiness of what makes up family; a wonderful book.” —Elizabeth Strout\, New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Olive Kitteridge and Olive\, Again \n“Emma Straub’s All Adults Here 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 \n“No one writes family drama like Straub\, and in her new novel All Adults Here\, she brings the Strick family to life with her unique wit and wisdom. . . .  It’s a heartfelt\, grounded story about family dynamics\, forgiveness\, and the unavoidable effects we have on those we love.”—Buzzfeed
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