Emma Straub
Author
Language
English
Description
"What if you could take a vacation to your past, without the filter of memory? What would you give to go back in time and relive your youth, in person, with the people who shared it? On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice's life isn't terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn't exactly the one she expected. She's happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But something is missing. Her...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times' bestselling author of The Vacationers, a smart, highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from college--their own kids now going to college--and what it means to finally grow up well after adulthood has set in. Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy real estate, and start businesses and families, all while trying to hold on to the identities...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 years earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Celebrating their thirty-fifth anniversary and their daughter's high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts, and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they try to conceal.
Author
Publisher
Urano World
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"En la víspera de su cuadragésimo cumpleaños, la vida de Alice no va del todo mal. Le gusta su trabajo, aunque no sea exactamente el que había soñado. Está satisfecha con su apartamento, su situación sentimental y su independencia, y adora a su mejor amiga. Pero su padre está enfermo, y tiene la sensación de que le falta algo. Cuando se despierta a la mañana siguiente, descubre que ha retrocedido hasta 1996, y tiene la oportunidad de revivir...