Want to read: The Adults by Alison Espach

I have so many books I'm currently reading, in various stages and various ways, and so many waiting to be read, but I am forever hearing about another one that calls out to me. I'm trying to be patient and wade through some I own and get rid of them (yes, me, get rid of books). The Adults by Alison Espach (side note: I don't get Amazon's pricing, but currently the paperback, out on Tuesday, is $9.73 and the Kindle edition is $11.99).



Here's the Publishers Weekly review:

In Espach's charming coming-of-age debut, 14-year-old Emily Vidal's life begins to veer off course at her father's 50th birthday party when he announces that he and her mother are divorcing. The birthday night ends with dad kissing the neighbor, Mrs. Resnick, in the woods, where Emily and Mrs. Resnick's son, Mark, discover them. The disorienting discoveries continue: Mark's ailing father commits suicide, and Mrs. Resnick is pregnant with Emily's dad's baby. With dad off to Prague and her mother undone by the affair and hitting the bottle, Emily loses faith in all the adults around her, even as she is becoming one of them. Emily starts an affair with an English teacher 10 years her senior, mostly to see how far she can go, which turns out to be pretty far. She and the teacher, Jonathan, who leaves teaching to become a lawyer, return to each other again and again as Emily graduates from college and moves to Prague to be with her father. Espach perfects the snarky, postironic deadpan of the 1990s and teenagers everywhere, and her ear for modern speech and eye for fresh detail transform a familiar story into an education in what it means to be a grown-up. (Apr.)