Emma Straub Livres

Un voyage dans le temps poétique et nostalgique, best-seller du New York Times. Alice Stern n'est pas prête à fêter ses quarante ans. Elle pensait qu'elle aurait eu plus de temps pour prendre sa vie en main. Elle pensait aussi qu'elle aurait plus de temps auprès de Leonard, son père, malade. Alice ne sait même pas si elle pourra entendre sa voix à nouveau. Quand elle s'endort la veille de son anniversaire devant leur ancien appartement, elle ne s'attend pas à se retrouver nez à nez avec un Leonard fringant, une carte célébrant ses seize ans à la main. Alice a seize ans mais elle a aussi quarante ans. Elle va vite comprendre comment elle est revenue au jour de son anniversaire de 1996 et surtout, comment passer d'une temporalité à l'autre. Elle se retrouve alors face aux différentes réalités qu'aurait pu prendre sa vie. Un roman tendre et poétique sur les choix qui font une vie et ce qui compte vraiment.

Pour les Posts, des vacances à Majorque, en famille et avec des amis, c'est quelque chose qui se mérite ! Cela tombe bien, Franny et Jim ont leurs 35 ans de mariage à fêter, et leur fille, Sylvia, vient d'obtenir son baccalauréat avec des résultats brillants. L'île ensoleillée, ses montagnes et ses plages, ses tapas et ses courts de tennis, promet d'échapper aux tensions latentes du quotidien à Manhattan. Pourtant, rien ne se passe comme prévu. Les soucis ne restent pas longtemps tapis dans les bagages : des secrets sont révélés, des rivalités et d'anciennes blessures refont surface...

The first picture book by bestselling novelist Emma Straub, this joyous and inventive read-aloud will inspire kids to see ordinary objects in a whole new way. Some people think hats are fancy things you can buy at a dressy store, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In this book, acorns and raspberries are snug hats for your fingers, and an empty pudding cup is a good hat for a stuffed bear. Pajama pants make dangly hats, books can be dramatic hats, and bubbles make very fine hats as well (if temporary). Readers will be delighted to discover that anything can be a hat if you believe it is. Hats are everywhere you look!

Winner of a Foreword IndieFab Book of the Year AwardIn 1967, Joan Didion wrote an essay called Goodbye to All That , a work of such candid and penetrating prose that it soon became the gold standard for personal essays. Like no other story before it, Didion’s tale of loving and leaving New York captured the mesmerizing allure Manhattan has always had for writers, poets, and wandering spirits.In this captivating collection, 28 writers take up Didion’s literary legacy by sharing their own New York stories. Their essays often begin as love stories do, with the passion of something newly discovered—the crush of subway crowds, the streets filled with manic energy, and the certainty that this is the only place on Earth where one can become exactly who she is meant to be.They also share the grief that comes when the metropolis loses its magic and the pressures of New York’s frenetic life wear thin on even the most fervent dwellers. As friends move away, rents soar, and love—still— remains just out of reach, each writer’s goodbye to New York is singular and universal, like New York itself.With Cheryl Strayed, Dani Shapiro, Emma Straub, Ann Hood, and more.

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. In All Adults Here, Emma Straub's unique alchemy 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 all the other things that follow us into adulthood, whether we like them to or not

Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy property, and start families, all while trying to hold on to the identities of their youth. But nothing ages them like having to pass the torch - of sexuality, independence, and the ineffable alchemy of cool - to their own teenage offspring.

A Bookpage Best Books of 2012 pick “At once a delicious depiction of Hollywood’s golden age and a sweet, fulfilling story about one woman’s journey through fame, love, and loss.”—Boston Globe  In 1920, Elsa Emerson is born to the owners of the Cherry County Playhouse in Door County, Wisconsin. Elsa relishes appearing onstage, where she soaks up the approval of her father and the embrace of the audience. But when tragedy strikes her family, her acting becomes more than a child’s game of pretend. While still in her teens, Elsa marries and flees to Los Angeles. There she is discovered by Hollywood mogul Irving Green, who refashions her as an exotic brunette screen siren and renames her Laura Lamont. But fame has its costs, and while Laura tries to balance career, family, and personal happiness, she realizes that Elsa Emerson might not be gone completely. Ambitious and richly imagined, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures is as intimate—and as bigger-than-life—as the great films of the golden age of Hollywood.

Was würdest du tun, wenn du alles in deinem Leben noch einmal neu entscheiden könntest? Morgen wird sie 40, und eigentlich ist Alice mit ihrem Leben recht zufrieden. Sie mag ihren Job, auch wenn es nicht ganz der ist, von dem sie geträumt hat, sie mag ihr kuschliges Apartment, sie kann seit Kindertagen auf ihre wunderbare beste Freundin zählen ... selbst ihr Beziehungsstatus ist ganz okay. Doch ihr Vater Leonard ist todkrank, und Alice fragt sich, ob das wirklich schon alles für sein Leben gewesen sein soll. Als Alice am nächsten Morgen aufwacht, ist plötzlich alles anders. Es ist 1996, und Alice ist nicht etwa 40, sondern 16. Sie hat eine Menge zu verarbeiten, aber der größte Schock von allen ist ihr Dad: so lebenslustig, jung und charmant hat sie ihn noch nie erlebt. Ist ihre unverhoffte Reise in die Vergangenheit etwa die Chance, seine und ihre Zukunft völlig auf den Kopf zu stellen? Nur wie entscheidet sie dann, was für sie beide wirklich zählt? Typisch Emma Straub: Geschickt verbindet sie 90er-Jahre-Nostalgie mit berührenden Momenten zwischen Vater und Tochter. Perfekte Lektüre für die kluge Frau!