#thelitbit // Modern Lovers + The Vacationers

We may be on the final leg of summer but vacay is on my mind. Anyone else?! If so, Emma Straub’s got your back. 

Great light reads and insight into the human soul. The everyday. The emotion. The turmoils and joys. And perspectives on coming of age while continuing to experience that growth cycle time and again.

Modern Lovers  by Emma Straub

An entertaining novel following the lives of close college friends and their children fusing together the excitement of youth, the shock of middle age, and the revelations that come to light years later. 

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

"...it's never too late to decide to do something else. Becoming an adult doesn't mean that you suddenly have all the answers."

"There wasn't enough time in the world, not for the things that mattered most..."

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The Vacationers  by Emma Straub

The story of a family's two week stay in Mallorca and the secrets, joys, and jealousies that surface.

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

"Families were nothing more than hope cast out in a wide net, everyone wanting only the best."

"There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self of so many years ago, and to make the same decision. Marriages, like ships, needed steering, and steady hands at the wheel."

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