Teenager Emily Vidal tries to navigate through the assortment of eccentric adults at her father's 50th birthday party, a celebration organized by her mother, despite her parents impending divorce. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
Teenager Emily Vidal tries to navigate through the assortment of eccentric adults at her father's fiftieth birthday party, a celebration organized by her mother, despite her parents' impending divorce.
The Adults is a cracked-up coming of age novel set in the suburbs of Connecticut. In a world of over-sexed and under-sexed parents, suicidal neighbors and horny high school teachers, teenage girls and boys screaming for attention, i.e. nose jobs, everybody is starved for something (sometimes quite literally for food). The novel spans a decade in Emily Vidal’s life as she discovers what it means to grow up, or she discovers that its quite impossible for her to grow up, or she discovers that it’s impossible for anybody to grow up in this world where an adult and a child can so dangerously be mistaken for the same exact thing.
