All Grown Up

ISBN: 1328915328

Author: Attenberg, Jami

Condition: New

A national bestseller from the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins, All Grown Up isa 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: shes a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But its what she leaves unsaid-shes 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 Andreas 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 Attenbergs power as a storyteller, a whip-smart examination of one womans life, lived entirely on her own terms.