Reading this novel has all the pleasures of reading one of Anne Tyler's compelling family portraits - but transported from Baltimore to Brooklyn, peopled with aging hipsters (instead of perennially middle-aged folks) and doused with a Lorrie Moore-like sense of the absurdities of contemporary life. - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The humorous insight Straub brings to the page about how everyday lives are lived will make for immersive reading and rich conversation. . . Straub recounts her characters' yearnings with love and empathy, which makes the book's wit - and Modern Lovers is screamingly funny -glow with warmth. -USA Today Straub serves up a perfect slice of the zeitgeist with this entertaining novel about former college bandmates raising their precocious children while grappling with marital tensions and midlife crises. -People [Modern Lovers] has the smart, cool sensibility of Straub's other novels, and you're sure to love this one just as much. - Elle Straub lets her characters fall apart and come together in their own messy, refreshingly human ways- always older, sometimes wiser, but never quite done coming of age. - Entertainment Weekly Summer in the city has never felt so good. . . Modern Lovers celebrates the updated look and feel of familial love and all of its complexities. Straub's clever and perceptive observations on growing up are gentle reminders that coming of age isn't just for kids. -The Washington Post With a real-estate agent, a chef, a yogi 'guru,' and teens sneaking off to do what teens do when teens sneak off- Straub's latest has something for everyone. - Marie Claire A lovely, satisfying early-summer read. -EW.com Thoughtful and hilarious, Modern Lovers proves growing up doesn't stop in adulthood. -Real Simple [Emma Straub] delights in this multi-generational tale. - Good Housekeeping Bestseller Emma Straub gives us an insightful look into middle age, parenthood, and the funny way that passions never fade, no matter how much time passes by. -Harper's Bazaar Straub has a gift for exposing larger truths through small, telling details. Her warmth and sense of humor electrify every page. -New York Magazine, Vulture Really entertaining. The characters are complex and likeable... one of those stories that makes you realise that life really does run away from you. - The Guardian (UK) Straub has a knack for keeping relationship drama amusing. -The Boston Globe [Straub has a] gentle way of producing meaning, allowing characters' trains of thought to run freely until they end up exposing a truth at once personally significant and broadly aphoristic. The deepening feels so natural you hardly notice it happening, and then you wonder how you arrived at such an inward-facing, luminous place. -Slate Modern Lovers examines love as both a fictionalized form of entertainment and very real component of the human condition. It pains us, excites us, frustrates and compels us to do stupid and extraordinary things - and yet we seem ever-willing to come back for more. -Salon A hilarious and heartfelt look at love and friendship, Modern Lovers is this summer's page-turning must-read. - Mashable Beach-ready. - Flavorwire [ Modern Lovers ] is a treat. . . a fabulous coming-of-age novel about women entering into a new era of their lives. - Refinery29 In Modern Lovers, Straub's new intertwined families are stuck in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, for the summer, but there are plenty of fireworks - including a teen romance and a potential movie about the friends' punk-rock past. -Newsday A life-long friend group much like the Friends gang are now in their fifties, and their kids are becoming adults. Much like Monica, Rachel, Joey, Chandler, Ross, and Phoebe, the characters are all neighbors with each other, this time in Brooklyn. As they grapple with their new place in life, you'll be drawn completely in by their stor sakriti opis