All Grown Up, Paperback/Jami Attenberg

A National Bestseller `` All Grown Up is a smart, addictive, hilarious and relevant novel.``-- Washington Post ``Powerful... All Grown Up is so intimatelyand] sharply observed.``-- Vogue ``I read it twice, laughing, cringing, and even tearing up.``--Judy Blume, New York Times Who is Andrea Bern? When her dippy therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she's a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it's what she leaves unsaid--she's 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, though. But when Andrea's 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 `` an] exquisitely of-the-moment novel`` ( Oprah Magazine ) about ``what is means to be a woman and a grown-up in today's times`` ( PopSugar ).