- American literature, Fiction, family life, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed
When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days decades earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children.
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Classical in form, spare, contemporary and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Emma Straub
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 376
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, Riverhead Books, Penguin Publishing Group
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780698407985
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