Emma Straubová je autorkou románů a povídek, jejichž díla byla přeložena do dvaceti jazyků. Její psaní se vyznačuje pronikavým pohledem na rodinné vztahy a společenské dynamiky. Straubová mistrně vykresluje postavy a jejich vnitřní světy s empatií a humorem. Její díla často zkoumají témata identity, dospívání a hledání smyslu.
A delightful story for preschoolers, this book by bestselling novelist Emma Straub captures the essence of love and friendship, making it perfect for Valentine's Day. With charming illustrations and heartwarming themes, it invites young readers to explore the joy of sharing and caring in a fun, engaging way. Ideal for reading aloud, it encourages emotional connection and celebrates the sweetness of relationships.
The first picture book by bestselling novelist Emma Straub, this joyous and inventive read-aloud will inspire kids to see ordinary objects in a whole new way. Some people think hats are fancy things you can buy at a dressy store, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In this book, acorns and raspberries are snug hats for your fingers, and an empty pudding cup is a good hat for a stuffed bear. Pajama pants make dangly hats, books can be dramatic hats, and bubbles make very fine hats as well (if temporary). Readers will be delighted to discover that anything can be a hat if you believe it is. Hats are everywhere you look!
Was würdest du tun, wenn du alles in deinem Leben noch einmal neu entscheiden könntest? Morgen wird sie 40, und eigentlich ist Alice mit ihrem Leben recht zufrieden. Sie mag ihren Job, auch wenn es nicht ganz der ist, von dem sie geträumt hat, sie mag ihr kuschliges Apartment, sie kann seit Kindertagen auf ihre wunderbare beste Freundin zählen ... selbst ihr Beziehungsstatus ist ganz okay. Doch ihr Vater Leonard ist todkrank, und Alice fragt sich, ob das wirklich schon alles für sein Leben gewesen sein soll. Als Alice am nächsten Morgen aufwacht, ist plötzlich alles anders. Es ist 1996, und Alice ist nicht etwa 40, sondern 16. Sie hat eine Menge zu verarbeiten, aber der größte Schock von allen ist ihr Dad: so lebenslustig, jung und charmant hat sie ihn noch nie erlebt. Ist ihre unverhoffte Reise in die Vergangenheit etwa die Chance, seine und ihre Zukunft völlig auf den Kopf zu stellen? Nur wie entscheidet sie dann, was für sie beide wirklich zählt? Typisch Emma Straub: Geschickt verbindet sie 90er-Jahre-Nostalgie mit berührenden Momenten zwischen Vater und Tochter. Perfekte Lektüre für die kluge Frau!
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The pages brim with tenderness and an appreciation for what we had and who we were. I could not have loved it more."—Ann Patchett “The kind of book that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you call the people you love. Exceptional."—Emily Henry "Delightful"—Boston Globe "Poignant"—New York Times What if you could take a vacation to your past? With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, beloved New York Times bestseller Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes, and a different kind of love story. On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her 16th birthday. But it isn’t just her adolescent body that shocks her, or seeing her high school crush, it’s her dad: the vital, charming, 40-something version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could?
Coming of age isn't just for kids. Astrid Strick has always tried to do her best for her three children. Now, they're finally grown up - but you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Elliott doesn't have any idea who he really is, or how to communicate with his own sons. Porter is, at last, pregnant - but feels incapable of rising to the challenge. Nicky has fled to distant New Mexico, where he's living the bohemian dream. And Astrid herself is up to things that would make her children's hair curl. Until now, the family have managed to hide their true selves from each other. But when Nicky's incorrigibly curious daughter Cecelia comes to stay, her arrival threatens to upturn everything..
Back in their band's heyday, Elizabeth put on a snarl over her Midwestern smile, Andrew let his unwashed hair grow past his chin, and Zoe was the lesbian all the straight women wanted to sleep with. Now nearing fifty they all live within shouting distance in the same neighborhood deep in gentrified Brooklyn. But nothing has aged them like having to suddenly pass the torch (of sexuality, independence, and the ineffable alchemy of cool) to their own offspring. As secrets and revelations are finally let loose-- about themselves, and about the famous fourth band member who soared and fell without them-- the stability of their lives can never be reclaimed.
Elsa, die jüngste von drei Schwestern, wächst in Door County auf, wo ihre Eltern ein kleines Theater betreiben. Nach einem tragischen Unglück flieht sie nach Hollywood, wo sie von Produzent Irving Green entdeckt wird und zur umschwärmten Schauspielerin aufsteigt. Ein Teil von ihr bleibt jedoch in den Kirschgärten ihrer Kindheit.
Celebrating their thirty-fifth anniversary and their daughter's high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts, and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they try to conceal
Neodolatelný a vzrušující román o tajemství a žárlivosti, které vyplavou na povrch během idylické dovolené. Manželé Postsovi se s celou početnou rodinou a přáteli vypraví na Mallorku. Důvodem je pětatřicáté výročí jejich svatby a oslava promoce dcery Sylvie. Slunný ostrov, příroda, pláže a výborné jídlo slibují perfektní únik z hektického Manhattanu. Ale všechno vždy nejde podle plánu: v průběhu dovolené, která měla být tím nejkrásnějším životním zážitkem, vycházejí na světlo stará tajemství, ponížení a křivdy z minulosti…
Winner of a Foreword IndieFab Book of the Year AwardIn 1967, Joan Didion wrote an essay called Goodbye to All That , a work of such candid and penetrating prose that it soon became the gold standard for personal essays. Like no other story before it, Didion’s tale of loving and leaving New York captured the mesmerizing allure Manhattan has always had for writers, poets, and wandering spirits.In this captivating collection, 28 writers take up Didion’s literary legacy by sharing their own New York stories. Their essays often begin as love stories do, with the passion of something newly discovered—the crush of subway crowds, the streets filled with manic energy, and the certainty that this is the only place on Earth where one can become exactly who she is meant to be.They also share the grief that comes when the metropolis loses its magic and the pressures of New York’s frenetic life wear thin on even the most fervent dwellers. As friends move away, rents soar, and love—still— remains just out of reach, each writer’s goodbye to New York is singular and universal, like New York itself.With Cheryl Strayed, Dani Shapiro, Emma Straub, Ann Hood, and more.
