Name: Steph's review of Other People We Married by Emma Straub
Item: Other People We Married
Rating: 3.5
Author: Steph

Emma Straub

In "Other People We Married," Straub creates characters as recognizable as a best friend, and follows them through moments of triumph and transformation with wit, vulnerability, and dazzling insight. In "Some People Must Really Fall in Love," an assistant professor takes halting steps into the awkward world of office politics while harboring feelings for a freshman student. Two sisters struggle with old assumptions about each other as they stumble to build a new relationship in "A Map of Modern Palm Springs." In "Puttanesca," two widows move tentatively forward, still surrounded by ghosts and disappointments from the past. These twelve stories, filled with sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language, announce the arrival of a major new talent.

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I'm not sure how I feel about this. In some ways I think Straub captured so many emotions in relationships and in other ways it just felt forced. Or maybe I've just never felt that way in my relationships, so it was hard for me to associate with the character.

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