Everything Here Is Under Control: A Novel by Emily Adrian (English) Hardcover Bo

Description: Everything Here Is Under Control by Emily Adrian Amanda is a new mother, and she is breaking. After a fight with her partner, she puts the baby in the car and drives from Queens to her hometown in rural Ohio, where she shows up unannounced on the doorstep of her estranged childhood best friend. Amanda thought that she had left Carrie firmly in the past. After their friendship ended, their lives diverged radically: Carrie had a baby the summer after high school, became a successful tattoo artist, and never escaped Ohios conservative grid of close-cut grass. But the trauma of childbirth and shock of motherhood compel Amanda to go back to the beginning and to trace the tangled roots of friendship and family in her own life.Compelling and engaging, Everything Here Is under Control is a raw, honest, occasionally hilarious portrait of the complexity, conflicting emotions, and physical trauma of both modern motherhood and the intense, intimate friendships that women forge in their youth. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Emily Adrian is the author of two critically acclaimed young adult novels, Like It Never Happened and The Foreseeable Future. Everything Here Is under Control is her first adult novel. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her husband, her son, and their dog, Hank. Review "Adrians meticulous, wry adult debut follows thirty-one-year-old new mother Amanda through her insecurities and anxieties...Adrians portrayal of the ups and downs of motherhood will resonate with readers."-- "Publishers Weekly""I quite liked this novel of a friendship and how it endured a pregnancy and a shared love and the past."-- "Roxane Gay""A tender novel about early motherhood, small-town life, and the various ways people make their families."-- "The Millions""Filled with compelling characters...Full of texture and authentic human ambivalence."-- "New York Times Book Review""The women fall into steady, if wary, rhythm with each other, their reunion setting the stage for the unfurling of a long-kept secret thats made all the more dramatic by the intense and often thrilling complexity of this relationship...Filled with compelling characters...Full of texture and authentic human ambivalence."-- "New York Times Book Review""[A] wonderful new novel...[A] precise, poignant, and thrilling story of friendship, motherhood, and the one-way road to adulthood...Its Amandas emotional journey, urgent and searching, that drives the book, moving it with the pulse and pace of a thriller."-- "Los Angeles Review of Books""There is so much to examine here, from the harrowing experience of new motherhood to the role of a father in an infants first days. Amandas complex relationship with Deerling, which includes her own mother, is worth noting, too, and a twist midway through the book adds great intensity to the story. But the heart of the novel is Carrie and Amandas friendship, with all its sorrow and joy. A perfect selection for book groups."-- "Booklist (starred review)""Quirky, resonant...With keen wit and affecting emotion, Everything Here Is under Control is a novel about love, family, and motherhood that balances compromises with possibilities."-- "Foreword Reviews""Brutally tender, ferociously intimate, astonishingly surefooted, and deeply satisfying. Emily Adrian has crafted a multilayered story whose people--I hesitate to call them mere characters--became so real and vivid to me that Ive thought about them long since finishing the book. An immersive, irresistible pleasure."-- "Chelsey Johnson, author of Stray City""A sharp, thoughtful, poignant look at early motherhood, a small town, and the complex, challenging, and beautiful relationships that make up our families both biological and chosen."-- "Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State""How Emily Adrian could write a book so honest and raw about the first weeks of motherhood and yet so appealing and unputdownable and--dare I say, heartwarming--is a mystery of novelistic alchemy. Nonetheless, there it levitates: light as a feather and heavy as a stone, a romantic comedy that redefines the terms of traditional romance and takes happily ever after far beyond the loss of maidenhood. Magic, addictive, brilliant fun."-- "Rufi Thorpe, author of The Knockout Queen ""I tore through Everything Here Is under Control in just a couple of days, compelled by its refreshingly honest portrayals of not only early motherhood but the kind of childhood friendship that shapes the rest of your life. Emily Adrian writes with such a keen and sensitive eye, and shes funny, and she is an astute observer of human behavior. I cheered when I got to the plot twist midway through, and, even now, I cant get this novels characters out of my mind."-- "Edan Lepucki, New York Times bestselling author of California""Emily Adrian is such a uniquely perceptive writer, possessing a kind of X-ray vision that finds the hidden truths inside of us, no matter how painful they might be. Everything Here Is under Control skillfully lays out a story that converges on motherhood, friendship, and our responsibilities to the world around us, the lives that touch us. A beautiful, bracing novel by an amazing, open-hearted writer."-- "Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here""I could not put down this brilliant, beautiful book. Its about the elastic, resilient love of our earliest friendships. Its about the challenges of motherhood at any age. Its about how the lands of our childhood define and complicate us--and how we can never leave them completely. Everything Here Is under Control is everything I want a novel to be: suspenseful, emotional, intellectual, and populated with characters so true and dimensional that their shocks and pains and happiness merge into my own. Emily Adrian is a force. Now, go read her book."-- "Jeannie Vanasco, author of Things We Didnt Talk about When I Was a Girl""Emily Adrian writes with deft assurance and penetrating insight about the intensities of motherhood, marriage, and female friendship."-- "Heather Harpham, author of Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After""Warm, compassionate, funny, and filled with surprises, Everything Here Is under Control is an accomplished novel by a writer to watch."-- "Brian Morton, author of Starting Out in the Evening and Florence Gordon" Review Quote "Warm, compassionate, funny, and filled with surprises, Everything Here Is under Control is an accomplished novel by a writer to watch." Details ISBN1982639644 Author Emily Adrian Short Title Everything Here Is under Control Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 1982639644 ISBN-13 9781982639648 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2020-07-28 Subtitle A Novel Pages 260 Publisher Blackstone Publishing Imprint Blackstone Publishing DEWEY 813.6 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:158423373;

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