All Grown Up

<strong>A national bestseller from the <em>New York Times</em> best-selling author of <em>The Middlesteins All Grown Up</em> is<em> </em>a wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection. <br/><br/></strong>Who is Andrea Bern? When her 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: 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. <br/><br/>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 <em>All Grown Up</em> is a breathtaking display of Jami Attenberg's power as a storyteller a whip-smart examination of one woman's life lived entirely on her own terms.