![]() ![]() ![]() She likes to drink, sleep with men, and, for some time, paint. Andrea doesn’t want the things she’s expected to want-babies, marriage-but she doesn’t know what she wants instead. Precisely because they appeal to emotion, Attenberg’s stories render accessible those things we often can’t, intellectually, persuade people to see.Īll Grown Up follows Andrea Bern, the daughter of a heroin addicted, musician father and activist mother. It’s also a way into topics that are rarely approached otherwise, unless by way of sterile academic argument. Fiction like Attenberg’s-entertaining, witty, a swirl of happiness, hope, and disaster-is an escape from daily reality and worry. You think, because she’s so funny, so sharp, so sarcastic and constantly moving, that Jami Attenberg can’t make you sad. ![]()
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