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"This novel is the literary equivalent of an afternoon spent in the fresh air and sunshine; warm, breezy, and deeply restorative. All Adults Here tells the story of the Strick family and their small hometown in New York’s Hudson Valley. The narration moves seamlessly between the multigenerational cast of characters, from family matriarch Astrid to her three grown-up children and her 13-year-old granddaughter Cecelia, who all have personal secrets and are grappling with how to share them. It’s a coming-of-age story which demonstrates that no matter which stage of life we’re in, we’re all just trying to figure out who we are and what we want. Straub doesn’t shy away from confronting sobering topics, but her generosity and wit encourages copious amounts of optimism. This is one of those rare novels I can recommend to readers of all ages—and I will, heartily."
— Reviewed by our bookseller Kate
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reactions only serve to silence people of colour, who cannot give honest feedback to 'liberal' white people lest they provoke a dangerous emotional reaction.
Robin DiAngelo coined the term 'White Fragility' in 2011 to describe this process and is here to show us how it serves to uphold the system of white supremacy. Using knowledge and insight gained over decades of running racial awareness workshops and working on this idea as a Professor of Whiteness Studies, she shows us how we can start having more honest conversations, listen to each other better and react to feedback with grace and humility.
It is not enough to simply hold abstract progressive views and condemn the obvious racists on social media - change starts with us all at a practical, granular level, and it is time for all white people to take responsibility for relinquishing their own racial supremacy.
