Powerfully intelligent and wickedly funny, All Grown Up delves into the psyche of a flawed but mesmerising character. Why does everyone keep asking me why I am not married? At what point does drinking a lot become a drinking problem? What can I demand of my mother now that I am an adult? Can I date you without ever hearing about your divorce? What if I don't want to hold your baby? Gut-wrenchingly honest and shimmering with rage and intimacy, All Grown Up questions what it means to be a 21st century woman: I'm the captain of the sinking ship that is my flesh.'Īndrea is a single, childless 39-year-old woman who tries to navigate family, sexuality, friendships and a career she never wanted, but battles with thoughts and desires that few people would want to face up to. 'Think BBC's Fleabag set in Brooklyn' Stylist 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.'Hilarious, courageous and mesmerising' Maria Semple But when Andrea’s niece finally arrives, born with a heartbreaking ailment, the Bern family is forced to reexamine what really matters. 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 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.
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. You can read this before All Grown Up PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.įrom the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins comes a wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection.
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