All Grown Up
Jami Attenberg
eBook
(Mariner Books, March 7, 2017)
A National Bestseller âI read it twice, laughing, cringing, and even tearing up.â â Judy Blume, New York Times âPowerful . . . All Grown Up is so intimately [and] sharply observed.â â Vogue âBravo to Attenberg, who, with hilarity and honesty, tells the story of an adult woman who wants what she wants, not what sheâs supposed to want.â â Marie Claire Who is Andrea Bern? When her dippy therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: sheâs a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But itâs what she leaves unsaidâsheâs alone, a drinker, a former artist, a shrieker in bed, captain of the sinking ship that is her fleshâthat feels the most true. Everyone around her seems to have a different idea of what it means to be an adult, though. But when Andreaâs 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 Attenbergâs powers as a storyteller and a whip-smart examination of one womanâs life, lived entirely on her own terms.