Had the description of All Adults Here by Emma Straub described
the main characters as homosexual, bisexual, and transsexual, I would have not
requested it as I am not the audience for this particular book. I found it to
be short on plot and just a hot mess trying to say something about every
current social issue from adultery to pedophilia. The message of the book is
severely diluted with this everything-in-the-world approach.
The message does deal with an aging parent who
realizes she made some mistakes parenting her children, and the outcome of
their adulthood she struggles with, as do they.
While I found the book to be well written and heavy on detail, the plot only went from a to b. Tighter editing might have helped as there was a great deal of redundant verbiage. I found the same problem with her book Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures (2012).
While I found the book to be well written and heavy on detail, the plot only went from a to b. Tighter editing might have helped as there was a great deal of redundant verbiage. I found the same problem with her book Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures (2012).
Emma Straub and her husband own Books are Magic, which
is an independent bookstore located in Brooklyn, New York.
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