All Adults Here by Emma Straub

 The Strick family has its secrets, and as the matriarch Astrid prepares to reveal hers, everyone else's skeletons come tumbling out of the closet.  From parenting mistakes, to illicit affairs, to new loves and new identities All Adults Here deals with hot button issues, love, and life as we know it.

I normally really enjoy multigenerational tales written in this format, but it wasn't the case with this one.  While I have no issue with a novel trying to tackle serious subjects, I felt that there were too many of them packed into All Adults Here.  It definitely felt like adding in LGBTQ+ issues, IVF, single parenthood, internet predators, and regular learning to love oneself issues were piled on top of one another to add drama for the sake of adding drama.  No topic was given enough room to breathe and be properly explored.

The characters were... okay, I guess.  I think this relates to the topics not being given enough room to breathe.  We are constantly shifting POVs and thus not allowed to know any one character deeply.  I wish about 50% of the secrets had been taken out.

The book was an easy and fairly entertaining read.  Readers that enjoy Elin Hildebrand, Liane Moriarty and Jodi Picoult might like this one.