All Adults Here

Okay book about widow with adult children and grandchildren who wonders if she could have done a better job raising them. Her kids are all very different and one of them said to the other two that they all had different parents. I think that is so true. Depending on so many factors, including birth order and difference in ages between kids, parents will not respond/act as they did with their sibling.

this was like gilmore girls (with all the white privilege of new england) but emily smoked weed and lorelai wasn't a perpetual child

i unexpectedly really enjoyed this book. it felt detached in a sense while we followed this family through a small period of time yet learned so much about them and all the traumas that their family structure and experiences imparted onto each member. as someone who has experienced multigenerational trauma and wishes so desperately that the perpetuators of said trauma could wake the fuck up and apologize for what they've done, i really appreciated this story

i will say that while queer characters have some limelight in this book, their stories reek of white privilege, so i would proceed with caution. it's nice to read how easy and fluffy queer life is for them (in comparison to the experiences of QBIPOC) but also man am i salty i'll never have a coming out like that lol

interested in reading more from emma straub if i can get a lovely intertwined cast of characters like this again!!