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Rise & Read Morning Book Discussion

All Adults Here by Emma Straub

2024-11-12 10:30:00 2024-11-12 11:30:00 America/Chicago Rise & Read Morning Book Discussion Registration and book pickup begins October 8. A warm, funny, and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family as they age and reckon with their legacy. R Main Library - Lake Room

Tuesday, November 12
10:30am - 11:30am

Add to Calendar 2024-11-12 10:30:00 2024-11-12 11:30:00 America/Chicago Rise & Read Morning Book Discussion Registration and book pickup begins October 8. A warm, funny, and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family as they age and reckon with their legacy. R Main Library - Lake Room

Main Library

Lake Room

Registration and book pickup begins October 8. A warm, funny, and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family as they age and reckon with their legacy. R

When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days decades earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence?

Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares.

But who gets to decide, so many years later, which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? Who decides which apologies really count? It might be that only Astrid's thirteen-year-old granddaughter and her new friend really understand the courage it takes to tell the truth to the people you love the most.

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AGE GROUP: | All Ages |

EVENT TYPE: | Adult |

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