Critic Reviews
Good
Based on 10 reviews on
Jami Attenberg is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books of fiction, including The Middlesteins and All Grown Up; a memoir, I Came All This Way to Meet You; and, most recently, 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round. She is the founder of the annual #1000WordsofSummer project, and maintains the popular Craft Talk newsletter year-round. Her work has been published in sixteen languages. She lives in New Orleans.
Your worldwide online book club 👋🏼 over 6000 members! 👩🏻⚖️👩🏽💼👵🏼👩🏾 See our pinned tweet for THIS MONTH'S 📖✨Join the online chat w/ the author👇🏼
Brrr! It’s got cold over here again! 🤧 So tonight we are snuggling up with this month’s book for a good chuckle! What are you up to this evening? 🤷🏻♀️ --- This month at #poppylovesbookclub we are reading #allgrownup by @jamiattenberg 😎 You can j… https://t.co/l6H5qZMdhT https://t.co/6ACUoDWMkO
A National Bestseller An LA Times Bestseller A New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller A Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller A Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller An IndieNext List Pick An Amazon Top 100 Best Book of 2017 A Kirkus Best Fiction of 2017 Pick "Deeply enjoyable."--Marisa Meltzer, Elle "Bravo to Attenberg, who, with hilarity and honesty, tells the story of an adult woman who wants what she wants, not what she's supposed to want."--Marie Claire "All Grown Up [is] a smart, funny/sad and unflinchingly honest novel about a single New Yorker. . . . In sparkling prose, [Attenberg] brings this wonderful character so fully to life that after the book ended, I found myself wishing Andrea well as if she were a good friend and wondering what she would do next."--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "I read it twice, laughing, cringing, and even tearing up."--Judy Blume, New York Times "Addicting and incredibly refreshing.... Attenberg brings the often upsetting, often comedic realities of life across in poignant, astute vignettes that will live in the reader's heart for a long, long time."--Travel and Leisure "Thank you, Jami Attenberg, for pushing back against society's assumptions about what is allowed to matter in our lives. For giving us a different kind of narrative. All Grown Up is not all fluffy and lovely. It turns out that we have other stories -- we single people. We human beings."--Bustle "Revolutionary.... [A] perceptive study of love, sacrifice, and what it really means to be an adult."--Tablet "Jami Attenberg deftly travels inside the head of a 39-year-old woman who has no interest in doing what she's supposed to do and follows her heart instead of her mind--a story that's sexy, charming, and impossible to put down."--Newsweek "Powerful...All Grown Up is so intimately [and] sharply observed."--Vogue "Attenberg is one of our finest contemporary storytellers, and here, with her trademark clever, witty voice, she tackles the age-old question plaguing people of all ages: When do we know if we're actually all grown up?"--Nylon, "50 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2017" "Smart, heartfelt, and really freakin' funny."--Sara Novic, Elle.com, "25 Most Anticipated Books by Women for 2017" "Attenberg knows how to make a reader laugh and feel. This novel takes a hard look at what it means to be a woman living on her own terms."--Lisa Lucas, Martha Stewart Living, "Page Turners for 2017" "I read it start to finish in one go, I can't think of another book I've done that about recently."--Mary Louise Kelly, NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday "Attenberg's fifth novel is her best yet. It's a super-smart, often extremely funny, sometimes heartbreaking portrait of a 39-year-old, single, child-free heroine in New York City who's taking her very best shot at living life on her own terms. . . . As angry, sad and raw as it is astute, hilarious and hopeful, All Grown Up puts other novels in this vein to shame." --