All Grown Up - Jami Attenberg
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Mia Barron
Tags: General Fiction, Bestsellers, Adults, Contemporary
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins comes a wickedly funny novel about a 39-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection., Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: shes a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But its what she leaves unsaid - shes alone, a drinker, a former artist, a shrieker in bed, captain of the sinking ship that is her flesh - that feels the most true. Everyone around her seems to have an entirely different idea of what it means to be an adult: her best friend, Indigo, is getting married; her brother - who miraculously seems unscathed by their shared tumultuous childhood - and sister-in-law are having a hoped-for baby; and her friend Matthew continues to wholly devote himself to making dark paintings at the cost of being flat broke. But when Andreas niece finally arrives, born with a heartbreaking ailment, the Bern family is forced to reexamine wh
