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How to Be a Grown-up : a Novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is How to Be a Grown-up : a Novel about?

From bestselling authors Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus comes a timely novel about a forty-something wife and mother thrust back into the workforce, where she finds herself at the mercy of a boss half her age. Rory McGovern is entering the ostensible prime of her life when her husband, Blake, loses his dream job and announces he feels like taking a break from being a husband and father. Rory was already spread thin and now, without warning, she is single-parenting two kids, juggling their science projects, flu season, and pajama days, while coming to terms with her disintegrating marriage. And without Blake, her only hope is to accept a full-time position working for two full-time twenty-somethings. A day out of b-school, these girls think they know it all and have been given the millions from venture capitalists to back up their delusion that the future of digital media is a high-end lifestyle site for kids! (Not that anyone who works there has any, or knows the first thing about actual children.) Can Rory learn to decipher her bosses lingo, texts that read like license plates, and arbitrary mandates? And is there any hope of saving her marriage? With her family hanging by a thr

Who reads How to Be a Grown-up : a Novel?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Publisher
New York: Atria Books
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9781451643459
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance
Rating
3.21 / 5 (1,835 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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