
- 352 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Lit Hub 's "Most Anticipated Books of 2020" Fleabag meets Conversations with Friends in this brutally honest, observant, original novel about a woman going through a breakup…but really having more of a breakdown. Jenny McLaine's life is falling apart. Her friendships are flagging. Her body has failed her. She's just lost her column at The Foof because she isn't the fierce voice new feminism needs. Her ex has gotten together with another woman. And worst of all: Jenny's mother is about to move in. Having left home at eighteen to remake herself as a self-sufficient millennial, Jenny is now in her thirties and nothing is as she thought it would be. Least of all adulthood.Told in live-wire prose, texts, emails, script dialogue, and social media messages, Grown Ups is a neurotic dramedy of 21st-century manners for the digital age. It reckons with what it means to exist in a woman's body: to sing and dance and work and mother and sparkle and equalize and not complain and be beautiful and love your imperfections and stay strong and show your vulnerability and bake and box…But, despite our impossible expectations of women, Emma Jane Unsworth never lets Jenny off the hook. Jenny's life is falling apart at her own hands and whether or not she has help from her mother or her friends, Jenny is the only one who will be able to pick up the pieces and learn how to, more or less, grow up. Or will she?
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: Hello, World!
- Chapter 2: Art Said
- Chapter 3: I Walk
- Chapter 4: They Say
- Chapter 5: In the Wings
- Chapter 6: They Say
- Chapter 7: I Post
- Chapter 8: They Say
- Chapter 9: A Womb of One’s Own
- Chapter 10: Therapy Session #1 (Dramatic Monologue)
- Chapter 11: Like of Duty
- Chapter 12: Picture the Scene
- Chapter 13: I Said
- Chapter 14: The Patatas Bravas
- Chapter 15: Kelly had Said
- Chapter 16: Sober Sexts
- Chapter 17: Ablutions
- Chapter 18: My Bathroom Said
- Chapter 19: Tipping Point
- Chapter 20: My Mother Said
- Chapter 21: I was Eighteen
- Chapter 22: Art Said
- Chapter 23: Someone Says
- Chapter 24: A Really Bad Sign
- Chapter 25: Mia Says
- Chapter 26: I Walk
- Chapter 27: Knockknock
- Chapter 28: One-Liners
- Chapter 29: I Say
- Chapter 30: The Outrage
- Chapter 31: Baby Elephant
- Chapter 32: Art Said
- Chapter 33: My Mother Says
- Chapter 34: How I Met Kelly
- Chapter 35: Art Said
- Chapter 36: Art Said
- Chapter 37: What Lasts?
- Chapter 38: Bad Stand-Up
- Chapter 39: Ghostess with the Mostest
- Chapter 40: I Woke up like this
- Chapter 41: The Mind Creates the Abyss
- Chapter 42: I Adored
- Chapter 43: Art Said
- Chapter 44: You
- Chapter 45: Terms of Endearment
- Chapter 46: If
- Chapter 47: Art’s Mother Said
- Chapter 48: Full Desperate
- Chapter 49: Miserable Pho
- Chapter 50: Breathing for One
- Chapter 51: Popular Problems
- Chapter 52: On the Bus
- Chapter 53: Tabs
- Chapter 54: Granma Said
- Chapter 55: All My Circus, All my Monkeys
- Chapter 56: Burnout
- Chapter 57: Therapy Session #2
- Chapter 58: In the Bin (One Whole Day)
- Chapter 59: App Idea
- Chapter 60: Look, no Hands
- Chapter 61: Hi Hi Hi
- Chapter 62: Back at Home
- Chapter 63: Exhibits A and B
- Chapter 64: Good Famous People
- Chapter 65: My Mother
- Chapter 66: Still Life
- Chapter 67: We’d Gone
- Chapter 68: “Funny”
- Chapter 69: Outgrown
- Chapter 70: Art Said
- Chapter 71: Bodies of Work
- Chapter 72: Kelly Said
- Chapter 73: Fake News
- Chapter 74: Google Me
- Chapter 75: Social Caterpillar
- Chapter 76: Really Tho
- Chapter 77: Deals with Strangers
- Chapter 78: News Item
- Chapter 79: Nicolette Says
- Chapter 80: Half an Hour Later
- Chapter 81: Ass Fizz
- Chapter 82: That Night
- Chapter 83: It Happened to Happen
- Chapter 84: #Frotheh
- Chapter 85: My Mother Says
- Chapter 86: The Heart Crosses it
- Chapter 87: Man-Child
- Chapter 88: Who Ya Gonna Call
- Chapter 89: Naked Ambition
- Chapter 90: Soho Square
- Chapter 91: She Says
- Chapter 92: Kelly Says
- Chapter 93: Genuine Question
- Chapter 94: Life Drawing
- Chapter 95: Relax
- Chapter 96: We Lie
- Chapter 97: Silent-Ish Night
- Bonus Chapter: Lockdown
- Acknowledgments
- Reader’s Guide
- About the Author
- Copyright