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Emma Straub is the New York Times‒bestselling author of the novels All Adults Here, Modern Lovers, The Vacationers, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, and the short story collection Other People We Married. Straub's work has been published in twenty countries, and she and her husband own Books Are Magic, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, New York.
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	The Vacationers 3.16 avg rating — 65,203 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Adults Here 3.61 avg rating — 46,747 ratings — published 2020 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Lovers 3.44 avg rating — 40,353 ratings — published 2016 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures 3.24 avg rating — 4,307 ratings — published 2012 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Other People We Married 3.41 avg rating — 2,049 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fly Over State 3.87 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reading Is Magic: A Book Log for Families it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York by Sari Botton (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elisa Albert (Contributor), Karen E. Bender (Contributor) 3.73 avg rating — 2,682 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths by Kate Bernheimer (Editor, Contributor), Laura van den Berg (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Ron Currie Jr. (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.46 avg rating — 691 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most by Elizabeth Benedict (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Maud Newton (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Roxana Robinson (Contributor) 3.59 avg rating — 584 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Emma Straub

“Families were nothing more than hope cast out in a wide net, everyone wanting only the best.”
― Emma Straub, The Vacationers

tags: family

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“There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self of so many years ago, and to make the same decision. Marriages, like ships, needed steering, and steady hands at the wheel.”
― Emma Straub, The Vacationers

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“Once Charles arrived, Franny would start laughing the way she had when she was twenty-four, and the rest of them could start setting one another on fire for all she cared. That’s what best friends did: ruin people for everyone else.”
― Emma Straub, The Vacationers

tags: best-friends, friendship

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August Side Read Nominations ~ 1st Poll

Top 5 books move onto final round

Becoming

by Michelle Obama

7 votes, 16.7%

In Pieces

by Sally Field

6 votes, 14.3%

The Chalk Man

by C.J. Tudor

6 votes, 14.3%

My Lovely Wife

by Samantha Downing

5 votes, 11.9%

The Bean Trees

by Barbara Kingsolver

4 votes, 9.5%

Pieces of Her

by Karin Slaughter

4 votes, 9.5%

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

by Anthony Marra

3 votes, 7.1%

Beautiful Bad

by Annie Ward

3 votes, 7.1%

The Vacationers

by Emma Straub

2 votes, 4.8%

Modern Girls

by Jennifer S. Brown

2 votes, 4.8%

42 total votes

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