All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg

All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg

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.

Jami Attenberg is the author of the short story collection Instant Love and the novels The Middlesteins and The Kept Man. She's written for publications such as The New York Times, Salon, Nylon, Print, Nerve, and others. She was born in Chicago and now resides in Brooklyn, New York.

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ISBN 13	9781328915320
ISBN 10	1328915328
Title	All Grown Up
Author	Jami Attenberg
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ecco Press
Year published	2018-03-13
Number of pages	224
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