Review: All Adults Here by Emma Straub

I really got into this book about three generations of a family in small-town Connecticut, though I felt let down by the ending, for reasons I’ll try to explain without saying too much.

The novel begins with Astrid, a widow, who sees a friend struck and killed by a speeding school bus.  Astrid is so shaken that she begins to reevaluate her life, particularly her secret relationship with a woman in town, and her difficult relationships with her three adult children.  She begins to see that while she tried to give her children freedom and space, the reality is that ...