Adults and Other Children

By Miriam Cohen,

Book cover of Adults and Other Children

Book description

An “acute portrayal of failed relationships and struggles to transcend social norms,”―New York Times Book Review (editor's choice)

“Readers can detect deadpan realism influences of Lorrie Moore and the feminism of Angela Carter in these stories, but the work is distinctly and originally Cohen's voice. . . . [The] plots…

When you buy books, we may earn a commission that helps keep our lights on (or join the rebellion as a member).

Why read it?

1 author picked Adults and Other Children as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Miriam Cohen gives us a series of stories loosely linked by recurring characters and contiguous themes.

In the world of these stories, childhood is bewildering and dreadful, while adults fail grotesquely to be adults—some never manage to stop being children, yet they never quite lose our sympathy.

If you love modern literary fiction, you will take as much delight in Cohen’s ruthless humour as you do in the exquisite prose and razor-keen insights which lurk on every page.

If you love Adults and Other Children...

Ad

Book cover of Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor's Unlikely Adventure

Tap Dancing on Everest by Mimi Zieman,

Tap Dancing on Everest, part coming-of-age memoir, part true-survival adventure story, is about a young medical student, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor raised in N.Y.C., who battles self-doubt to serve as the doctor—and only woman—on a remote Everest climb in Tibet.

The team attempts a new route up…

Want books like Adults and Other Children?

Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like Adults and Other Children.

Browse books like Adults and Other Children

Book cover of Though I Get Home
Book cover of Ghosts of You
Book cover of Enkidu Is Dead and Not Dead / Enkidu esta muerto y no lo esta

Share your top 3 reads of 2024!

And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.

1,846

readers submitted
so far, will you?

Ad

📚 If you like Adults and Other Children, you might also like...

All They Need to Know by Eileen Goudge,

Book cover of All They Need to Know

On the run from her abusive husband, Kyra Smith hits the road. Destination unknown. With a dog she rescued in tow, she lands in the peaceful California mountain town of Gold Creek and is immediately befriended by an openhearted group of women who call themselves the Tattooed Ladies. They’re there…

Rooted in Sunrise by Beth Dotson Brown,

Book cover of Rooted in Sunrise

Ava Winston likes her life of routine in Lexington, Kentucky. Then a tornado blows it away. Ava is safe in the basement, but when she emerges, only one corner of her home stands. Rather than crumbling under the loss, she feels a load lifted. Maybe something beyond the familiar is…

5 book lists we think you will like!

Interested in childhood, women, and adult?

Childhood 200 books
Women 660 books
Adult 7 books