Emma Straub is the New York Times-bestselling author of three other novels The Vacationers, Modern Lovers, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, and the short story collection Other People We Married. When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she’d been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Her youngest son is drifting and unfocused; her daughter is pregnant but struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest son seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. Who gets to decide which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? In All Adults Here (Riverhead Books), Emma Straub brings her wisdom and humor to a story about adult siblings, aging parents, high school boyfriends, and all the many things that follow us into adulthood, whether we like them to or not. The New York Times called it “Literary sunshine.”

Ann Patchett is the author of eight novels including The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, and The Magician’s Assistant. She was the editor of Best American Short Stories, 2006, and has written three books of nonfiction, Truth & Beauty, What now? and, most recently, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is the co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee.  Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House (Harper) is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled by their stepmother from the house where they grew up and find themselves back in the poverty their parents had escaped from. Their bond saves their lives and thwarts their futures. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called The Dutch House a “splendid novel [that] is a thoughtful, compassionate exploration of obsession and forgiveness, what people acquire, keep, lose or give away, and what they leave behind.”