adult children

Recounts the time spent by Ken Budd volunteering across the globe as he sought to find purpose in his life after his father's death.

Millions of American parents sit down to dinner every night, wondering why fully grown children are joining them-or, more likely, grunting good-bye as they head out for another night of who knows what. Sally Koslow, a journalist, novelist, and mother of two "adultescents" digs deep to reveal what lies behind the current generation's unwillingness-or inability-to take flight.By delving into the latest research and conducting probing interviews with both frustrated parents and their frustrated offspring, Koslow uses humor, insight, and honest self-reflection to give voice to the issues of prolonged dependency. From the adultescent's relationship to work (or no work), money (that convenient parental ATM), or social life, Slouching Toward Adulthood is a provocative, razor-sharp, but heartfelt cri de coeur for all the parents who sent their kids to college only to have them ricochet home with a diploma in one hand and the DVR remote in the other.

Joan Wickersham reflects on how her father's suicide impacted her life and challenged every idea she had ever had about her father's life and happiness.

Esther Kohler has just graduated from college and moves back in with her parents, and takes a job her mother lined up for her babysitting the neighbors.

Looks at the forces that have shaped America since the 1960's and how those affect young people today.

Lucy Jarrett returns from Japan to her home in Lake of Dreams, New York, where she becomes caught up in solving the mystery of her father's death ten years earlier, and reignites the flame with her first love, glass artist Keegan Fall.

They died in each other's arms. But their secret--the letters--did not die with them. True love keeps no secrets. Jack and Laurel have been married for 39 years. They've lived a good life and appear to have had the perfect marriage. With his wife cradled in his arms, and before Jack takes his final breath, he scribbles his last "Wednesday Letter." When their adult children arrive to arrange the funeral, they discover boxes and boxes full of love letters that their father wrote their mother each week on Wednesday. As they begin to open and read the letters, the children uncover the shocking truth about their past. In addition, each one must deal with present-day challenges. Matthew has a troubled marriage, Samantha is a single mother, and Malcolm is the black sheep of the family who has returned home after a mysterious two-year absence.