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 ageRory 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 delusionthat the future of digital media is a high-end lifestyle sitefor 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 thread Rory must adapt to this hyper-digitized over-glamorized narcissistic world of millennialswhatever it takes Since their diabolically funny The New York Times on The Nanny Diaries debut Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus have proven their ability to illuminate provocative issues with wry wit and heartfelt emotion How to Be a Grown-up is an entertaining and insightful story sure to resonate with all those readers who first fell in love with The Nanny Diaries.
