All Grown Up

All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg, 197 pages

Andrea is a New York woman, living the single life and avoiding the marriage-kids-divorce track that everyone else seems to be taking. Christa did a great job of describing this book here, so I won't add much to her description. But I will say that the structure of the book — which starts every chapter at a different period in Andrea's life, and focusing on a different person she knows — lends to the sense that Andrea is simply marking time as everyone around her evolves. It's only in the later chapters that Andrea's own evolution reveals itself. I'm not a huge fan of the book (I much prefer Attenberg's Saint Mazie), but I did enjoy it and the structure.