All Adults Here

Critics Review

• A novel about how we try and fail at every age and yet somehow survive. It is brimming with kindness, forgiveness, humour 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

  Ann Patchett

• Literary sunshine

  New York Times

• A wonderful read

  Elizabeth Strout

• Smartly observant, wryly witty, big-hearted . . . Fans of Ann Patchett, Anne Tyler and Lily King should seek [Straub] out

  The Sunday Times

• This beautifully written book delves deeply, perceptively and humorously into the contemporary human condition

  Daily Mail

• A warm and witty story about a family learning to accept the mistakes of the past and feeling their way towards a new, more truthful way of being together. Emma Straub has such a wonderful talent for depicting small-town existence, as well as the challenges and frustrations of family life, that I was utterly immersed in the world of the Stricks. It’s one of those books that leaves you feeling as if you’ve visited a new place and met new friends. All Adults Here is a joy to read

  Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus

• If you can imagine a glorious mash-up of Elizabeth Strout and Gilmore Girls, All Adults Here is is

  Red

• If you’re a fan of Anne Tyler‘s writing, you’ll love this captivating well-observed family drama

  Good Housekeeping

• A novel full of poignant insights into family

  Woman & Home

• In All Adults Here, Straub cements her status as a master of the domestic ensemble drama. While readers will relate to the comfortable familiarity of Straub’s work, it has also taken on an unexpected air of escapism

  Time Magazine

• Likely to be the book that every single person will be reading this summer

  Bookpage

• An affecting family saga that juggles issues as weighty as abortion, gender identity and bullying with ease

  USA Today

• Emma Straub is a master of the breezy, but still literary, family drama. Her fifth novel. . . . promises to be another sprawling, big-hearted page-turner

  LitHub

• A warm, funny novel about the lifecycle of one family

  Sheerluxe

• Straub etches in the comforting, often funny truths readers love her for. Like us, her characters are always getting older but never feeling quite old enough to do the right thing, to be the people they want to be, to let go of the past, and they’re certainly never ready to die. An all-out celebration of the life force in ourselves and in our families

  Booklist, Starred Review

• As always, Straub draws her characters warmly, making them appealing in their self-centeredness and generosity, their insecurity and hope. . . . Straub has a sharp eye for her characters’ foibles and the details of their liberal, upper-middle-class milieu. With humor and insight, Straub creates a family worth rooting for

  Kirkus

• No less charming than the rest of her oeuvre, about one family growing up and ageing, and how the parent-child roles between parents and their children is swapped

  Thrillist

• 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

• Smart and funny and warm, the kind of novel you fall into and don’t ever want to end, which is exactly what we need now

  The Times

• The book has already roused a flood of fans clamoring to find out how Astrid’s story ends

  Reader's Digest

• The warm and funny novel only Emma Straub can deliver to us in this time of need

  Paper Magazine

• There’s no drama like family drama as Emma Straub proves in this touching, humorous, and eye-opening new novel… All Adults Here weaves a memorable tale about navigating some of our most important, and most maddening, relationships

  Town and Country

• 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

  Oprah Magazine

• Perceptive and fun

  AARP

• It’s good company

  Leigh Haber, Book Editor at O, The Oprah Magazine

• In her witty new novel, All Adults Here, Emma Straub examines adolescence, ageing, gender, and sexuality through the nuanced experiences of three generations of a New York family

  Harper's Bazaar US

• Come for the close examination of parental child roles, stay for goats

  Good Housekeeping US

• Unlike parents when it comes to their children, novel readers are allowed to have favourite characters. This will be an impossible task for many readers of All Adults Here, in which Emma Straub switches among the perspectives of eight characters who are all endearing in their disarmingly muddleheaded or abjectly truth-seeking ways…gasp-worthy…belongs in the company of Cathleen Schine, Tom Perrotta and other fiction writers who understand that the degree of humour that can be teased from family drama is often directly proportional to the extent of the family’s misery

  Shelf Awareness

• All Adults Here is a master class on the small-scale American drama. There’s a wry wink in the title; being grown up is no guarantee that you have it figured out. Ensconced in their upstate New York bubble, the Strick clan is the perfect show case…Yet 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 US

• One of our favourite funny and kind books of the year . . . perfectly pitched summer reading

  Stylist

• Set over the course of an upstate New York summer, this shrewd, kindly tale embraces a topical spread of inter-generational challenges, yielding tart truths about love, class and family. It’s spry and satisfying

  Mail on Sunday

• A warm, funny novel

  SheerLuxe

• If you can imagine a glorious mash-up of Elizabeth Strout and Gilmore Girls, All Adults Here is it

  Red

• Set over the course of an upstate New York summer, this shrewd, kindly tale embraces a topical spread of inter-generational challenges, yielding tart truths about love, class and family. It’s spry and satisfying.

  Mail on Sunday

• A novel full of poignant insights into family

  Woman & Home

• If you’re a fan of Anne Tyler’s writing, you’ll love this captivating, well-observed family drama

  Good Housekeeping

• Busting with witty and poignant observations about the messiness of family

  Read with Jenna Book Club Pick

• Emma Straub has done it again! All Adults Here introduces us to the Stricks, a delightfully flawed family, with matriarch Astrid at the centre…I know I’ve been having trouble adulting during this time (seriously, I have to cook, again?!), and the characters in this novel feel like they’re struggling right alongside me

  Read It Forward

• All Adults Here will make you question your entire childhood

  Marie Claire US

• All Adults Here is deliciously funny and infectiously warm – a clever blend of levity and poignant insights. Straub’s flair for irony and wit shine, and she puts a fresh (and progressive) spin on the age-old multigenerational family saga

  Washington Post

• The queen of the summer novel…we have turned to Emma Straub to bring us highly enjoyable, yet still thought-provoking, tales about witty protagonists in the throes of life changes

  Entertainment Weekly

• Straub’s novel takes her signature wit upstate, exploring the complexities of small-town life and what it’s
  like to live as an adult in the same place where you grew up

  Deadline

• If you’ve spent lockdown at home with the family, this one might just ring true for you. A witty, warm and thoroughly entertaining novel. Relatable

  Luxe

• It takes rare skill to make everyday family ups and downs so pleasurable to read but Straub brings both a deceptive light touch and a flinty sense of humour to this breezy big-hearted portrait of ordinary people trying to negotiate the landscape of being a grown up. A superior slice of domestic fiction for fans of Anne Tyler and Ann Patchett

  Metro

• Pulsating with perceptive wit . . . entertaining

  Sunday Post

• Great for fans of Liane Moriarty

  Harpers Bazaar

• Whips along with feel-good momentum, driven by warmth and love

  Press Association

• Warm, witty, perceptive. Anne Tyler on laughing gas

  Saga Magazine

• Written with true warmth and wit

  Bella

• Praise for Emma Straub

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• It’s the beautifully drawn, vibrant characters that make this smart, compelling novel so irresistible

• Funny, poignant and beautifully observed

• Straub writes beautifully and amusingly . . . hard to beat for sheer charm and gentle wit

  Daily Mail

• Smart and entertaining

  Stylist

• Hugely talented . . . intelligent holiday reading

• Warm and big-hearted . . . leaves you smiling for days

  bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette

• Straub writes with such verve and sympathetic understanding of her characters . . . Reading this novel has all the pleasures of reading one of Anne Tyler’s compelling family portraits

  New York Times

• A funny and insightful look at love and relationships

  Good Housekeeping

• Written with true warmth and wit

  Bella

• A smart, cool sensibility

  Elle

• Lovely, satisfying

• Smart and fresh, offering new insights into the lives of people all around us

  Brooklyn Magazine

• Thoughtful and hilarious

  Real Simple

• It would be easy to compare Straub to other masters of the genre like Meg Wolitzer or Jennifer Egan, but she’s already a master in her own right

  The Millions

• Wise and often hilarious

  Buzzfeed

• Readers will devour this witty and warmly satisfying novel

  Publishers Weekly

• A precise and observant writer whose supple prose carries the story along without a snag. Straub’s characters are a quirky and interesting bunch . . . it’s a pleasure spending time with them

  Kirkus

• Devilishly observed

  Booklist

• Sprinkled with humour and insight

  Library Journal

• Straub is consistently excellent

  Book Riot