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Emma Straub

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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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Average rating: 3.27 · 104,383 ratings · 10,421 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Vacationers 3.15 avg rating — 59,722 ratings — published 2014 — 36 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 3.43 avg rating — 35,246 ratings — published 2016 — 29 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 3.23 avg rating — 3,941 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 3.46 avg rating — 1,766 ratings — published 2011 — 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 3.98 avg rating — 104 ratings — expected publication 2020 — 2 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
	Ein Sommer wie kein anderer: Roman by Emma Straub (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Sonja Rebernik-Heidegger 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	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
	Frauen, die lieben: Roman by Emma Straub (Goodreads Author), Gabriela Schönberger (Translator) 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
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	Reading Is Magic: A Book Log for Families 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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Emma made a comment in the group Food & Fiction — Ask Emma Straub, Author of The Vacationers, Your Questions Here topic " Thank you so much for your wonderful questions, all! Enjoy your last moments of summer! xooxxoxo "
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Really incredible. An inside-out Henry James novel. Rather staggering.
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Among other people, I would very much like to be Deborah Eisenberg when I grow up. Think about it-- as a bonus, you'd be married to Wallace Shawn. Not too shabby.
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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

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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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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%

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