I'm going to recommend this book to my patrons and to my fellow reader's advisors in our library. I enjoyed the variety of characters, and the number of different situations they were encountering. I would like to spend more time with them!

Love this book. In a twist of events, I actually think I enjoyed it more than her first book, Vacationers (which usually is not the case). I loved all the characters and their relationships. They felt so real. I also loved the small town environment, which felt like a character in itself. Great book!

I am a fan of family drama -- in books! -- and this one didn't let me down. I really enjoyed the characters, their individual stories, and how they all intertwined. There were so many different personalities and voices, but they were handled so well. This ranks right up there with Claire Lombardo's "The Most Fun We Ever Had" for me, and that's saying a lot. I've never read an Emma Straub book, but I'm already adding her other books to my to-read pile!

A feel-good read for all those self-doubters out there, especially parents. With teenagers, pregnant women, siblings, adult children, grandparents, wives and husbands, hetero, trans and lesbians, this book gives you insight into the thinking and emotions of so many people that you end up wanting to stay with them, have a coffee or drink, and just share. (Except for Jeremy and his family who don't quite get their comeuppance.) I can't wait to visit the Strick family again on audio. Recommend to people who like Ann Leary's The Good House for its humor and its look at real problems.

When Astrid Strick witnesses a woman in her town get hit by a school bus one day, her whole life is suddenly put into glaring, even horrifying focus. She realizes that the woman hit by the school bus could just as easily been her. From that moment on, Astrid is on a mission to set things right— with her 3 adult children, her grandchildren, with her hairdresser Birdie, but perhaps most importantly Barbara, the woman whose life was taken by a bus. 
All Adults Here is about family, the relationships that we never get to choose. Told from shifting perspectives, Emma Straub’s newest novel is funny, and honest, but most of all charming. It brings to question the long believed idea that all adults have their lives together, when in reality, that is farthest from the truth. All Adults Here is about daring to face your flaws, while still living unapologetically as your truest self.
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This was a much needed break from my usual psychological thrillers, especially in our current crazy virus-stricken world.  Well written in Emma Staub's great style. I didn't enjoy it as much as the Vacationers, but this was still a very enjoyable read about the lives of a family in the Hudson Valley. Every family has its problems and secrets and this book does a great job of describing the issues and secrets every family member has in an entertaining way. The issues are modern: social media, transgenderism, lesbian and gay issues, single mothers and bullying. As many readers commented there is no real plot, the only reason I give it 4 stars rather than 5.

I really enjoyed Ms Straub’s The Vacationers and Modern Lovers, but this new novel is really a cut above and I LOVED it! 

Set in the quaint New England town of Clapham, the novel revolves around three generations of the Strick family. Astrid, the matriarch, witnesses the accidental death of another town resident, and this memento mori causes her to question the way she has lived her life.

Told from multiple perspectives, each of the characters holds a secret and it is only when these start to come to light, that they are able to let go of the past and move forward. 

Ms Straub writes wonderful characters and combined with the Stars Hollow-type attraction of Clapham, I want to live there: having my haircut at Shear Beauty, eating pancakes at Spiro’s, and I could even be the librarian at CJHS, hanging out with Cecelia and August. There are many apposite descriptions and similes which made me think - yes, yes, that’s exactly right.

While I would have liked a little more resolution on a couple of the threads that’s just a minor quibble. As I got closer to the end, I was feeling that melancholy you get when you know you’ve not got much time left in a particular world. 

All in all, just wonderful and highly recommended.

A mother looks at her grown children, grandchildren and her own life as she searches for truth. Astrid's husband is dead, her grown children are scattered and she has agreed to house her teenage granddaughter but she doesn't feel fulfilled until the day she admits that she is in love with a woman. Female focused look at her roles as mother, wife, caregiver and friend. Other women in the book find their voice as single parents or friends being brave and standing up for individuality. There is nothing earth shattering about this novel, but it is a sweet story for fans of introspective family relationships. My thanks to the publisher for the advance copy.

A funny, family story of love, lost, and dysfunction.  Great for book clubs and women fiction lovers!

I had never read anything by Straub, so I waked to give it a try. There were so many characters in this book, which was fine, but the alternative narration felt disjointed. I didn’t think any of the story lines were really wrapped up, so it was really just confusing.

Emma Straub´s latest novel dives into the life of a grown family in a small town in New York.  The siblings are all grown with their own families, but their childhood informs who they are now.  I thoroughly enjoyed this book.  Its characters are flawed, but likable and the story comes together in such a sweet way.  Emma Straub´s writing is spectacular.

an enjoyable, smart and well written novel that draws familiar characters and situations with grace and skill.

I don't think there has ever been a piece of media that gave me the same deep, wonderful feelings as the show Parenthood, and then this book came along! It was the perfect mix of family, love and dealing with the mistakes of the past and trying to make amends in the present.

Although there wasn't much of a plot to the book, Emma Straub kept me interested because I cared so much about the family relationships. Astrid's relationships with and thoughts about each of her three children were so realistic and watching her grow to better understand them--and by extension herself-- was so satisfying. I could picture each of the children and see how their personalities had been formed by the loss of their father and the actions of their mother.

I also love stories where we as readers learn information along with the protagonist. Each of the adult children (and grandchildren... and community members) had their own secrets that we learned along with Astrid as the story went on. This made my feelings about each character change as I learned more about them. Some I started out feeling negative or ambivalent towards, but seeing them through new eyes as Astrid processed more about how the people around her had changed gave me a better and more positive perspective on them. I feel like these are characters I will continue to think about, especially as I interact with the people most important to me.

I liked this a lot at the time, but then I set it down for a few days before writing a review and found I have nothing to say about it. I will add that the publisher's description is really not how I'd describe it, but it is a novel about family and how most of us are just doing our best.

This book is for every parent who beats themselves up for past actions and interactions with their kids while trying to raise them to be decent, productive humans.  

As Astrid watches in shock and disbelief, an acquaintance is mowed down by a school bus while trying to cross a street.  This sudden end to a life causes Astrid to reflect on her desires, her heartbreaks, and the things she wishes she could go back and change, but instead knows she needs to apologize for.  As Astrid processes through the shock and her subsequent realizations, the story follows Astrid's three children, their resentment of past events and how they have dealt with Astrid's unintentional mistakes in their adult lives.  

Great story about real feelings and mistakes that every parent makes even though they have the best intentions and the hope that there will be enough time to at least apologize for the mistakes even if there was no way to correct them.

I loved this book! Astrid, the matriarch and widow of three adult children witnesses an accident in their small town and the death of a contemporary. It has a deep affect on her and forces her to reevaluate how she relates to her children.  We all have to deal with family dynamics and Straub does a great job of walking us through how this family deals with theirs.  There are big changes in the lives of all three adult children and a teenage granddaughter throughout the book. We also got inside the heads of all the characters and glimpsed the difference between being the oldest child growing up and the youngest. It is definitely a family of the 21st century with problems not seen a generation ago.

If you're having Gilmore Girls withdrawals but wish the show were more progressive, then you'll love Emma Straub's latest. The Strick family is all around unlikable at first read, but each character becomes more and more endearing as the book progresses. It's slower paced than Straub's previous books, but I appreciated it after the chaotically fun final chapters. It's a fun, poignant read that will stick with you long after you've finished it.

This book is a unique mixture of wisdom, humor, and insight come together in a deeply satisfying story about adult siblings, aging parents, high school boyfriends, middle school mean girls, the lifelong effects of birth order, and many other things which life throws in your path.  Very funny at times, very sad at times but very realistic and loving!

All Adults Here is an easy to read family saga, with a charming, relaxing vibe, but not much “there, there.”

I couldn’t get into this one. Maybe it was the lack of plot? I didn’t find the characters engaging either - which would’ve made up for the lack of a typical plot. Stopped at the halfway point.