Now That We're Adults

<p><strong>Poignant quirky cleverly humorous and infinitely relatable. -Booklist (Starred Review)</strong></p><p></p><p>When happy-go-lucky Wade is dumped by his longtime girlfriend he's left to wonder whether she might have a point about his lack of ambition. Needing a distraction from the heartbreak he begins programming a video game which soon becomes a passion project as he strives to prove he can follow through on his own.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile his brother Ian barely has time for games now that he's overloaded at work and struggling to connect with pregnant wife Kat who's starting to doubt whether she wants a baby at all. In fact without the shared experience of college their entire friend group is splintering.</p><p></p><p>Needing his friends more than ever Wade becomes obsessed with turning back the hands of time. But with everyone's hopes and expectations so tangled up it might take an outsider-someone like painfully shy librarian Eleanor-to provide some much-needed perspective. That is if she could get out of her head long enough to risk making a connection.</p>