Virtual Event: Hiawassee Book Club

Join the Hiawassee Book Club to discuss our book selection, "All Adults Here" by Emma Straub. 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 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 pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. But who gets to decide, so many years later, which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? Who decides which apologies really count? It might be that only Astrid's thirteen-year-old granddaughter and her new friend really understand the courage it takes to tell the truth to the people you love the most.

This event occurs online through Zoom. An email will be sent before the event with more information on how to join. Please register at the Library's website, ocls.info: https://attend.ocls.info/event/4848164

Virtual access to this title is available through Overdrive in both eBook and Audiobook formats.

Book: https://iii.ocls.info/record=b2289081~S1
Overdrive E-book: https://iii.ocls.info/record=b2289410~S1
Overdrive Audiobook: https://iii.ocls.info/record=b2290175~S1