Fictional Families: Three Novels

From Jami Attenberg, the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins, comes All Grown Up, a wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection. In Lauren Grodstein‘s poignant novel, Our Short Story, a dying mother struggles to play out her last days in the “right” way for her son. Three decades after she first made a name for herself among the ranks of writers like Bret Easton Ellis and Donna Tartt, Jill Eisenstadt marks her return to the literary scene with Swell, a deft exploration of family, relationships, and the perils of living in a world rife with uncertainty.