Book Review: "All Adults Here" By Emma Straub

Sexuality seems to be a recurring theme in many of Emma Straub's books these days.

All Adults Here is a new take on the classic mother feeling left behind with an 'empty nester' syndrome appeal.

This accident of Astrid's joggled the mind and the flood of emotions that left her feeling lesser than in terms of child rearing and wishing she had a do-over.
The sense of devalue, discard, and rejection all come to a head here with her three kids with her youngest being unfocused and lost, the mid daughter becoming pregnant (ps. with a married man) and the latter off on his own world.

Now I'm all for expression but what defines overboard is something that needs defining.

The throw it all in and hope it sticks or hope it creates an impression leaves an awful taste in my mouth and not just because I'm strick Catholic because they too have their own underlying issues with child abuse, cover ups, sexual abuse and the like.

This is a book that should come with warning: sexual abuse, sexual orientation, adultery, sexual gender identity including lesbianism and trans world among other things.

It was just too fast, too sudden, too unexpected, and became diluted being tossed in without a real agenda or purpose for readers to absorb the magnification of it all.

The repetition became redundant beyond belief creating a feeling of wishing it ends soon rather than later.

I hope others find this well but for me it missed the mark and sadly it wasn't appealing for my liking.

Thank you to Bibliotheca for this copy in exchange for this honest review.