Bibliograph

Type

Label

Grown ups, a novel, Emma Jane Unsworth

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Grown ups

Oclc number

1135106407

Responsibility statement

Emma Jane Unsworth

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"Fleabag meets Conversations with Friends in this brutally honest, observant, original novel about a woman going through a breakup...but really having more of a breakdown"--, Provided by publisherJenny McLaine's life is falling apart. Her friendships are flagging. Her body has failed her. She's just lost her column at the Foof because she isn't the "fierce voice new feminism needs." Her ex has gotten together with another woman. And worst of all: Jenny's mother is about to move in. Having left home at eighteen to remake herself as a self-sufficient millennial, Jenny is now in her thirties and nothing is as she thought it would be. Least of all adulthood. Told in live-wire prose, texts, e-mails, script dialogue, and social media messages, Grown Ups is a neurotic dramedy of twenty-first century manners for the digital age. It reckons with what it means to exist in a woman's body: to sing and dance and work and mother and sparkle and equilize and not complain and be beautiful and to love your imperfections and stay strong and show your vulnerability and bake and box... But despite our impossible expectations of women, Emma Jane Usnworth never lets Jenny off the hook. Jenny's life is falling apart at her own hands, and whether or not she has help from her mother or her friends, Jenny is the only one who will be able to pick up the pieces and learn how to, more or less, grow up. Or will she?

Target audience

adult

Classification