The vacationers straub5/13/2023 ![]() It’s not necessary to have read these stories to enjoy The Vacationers, but Straub has spent quite a lot of time with the Posts, and it shows. In the novel, we spend 14 days with the Post family, but Straub, in Other People We Married, her first collection of short stories, has already written about a younger Franny Post, her best friend, Charles, her husband, Jim, and their son, Bobby. ![]() What separates The Vacationers is just how well Straub knows her characters. Like many summer books, it’s a quick read and its tone is often light and humorous and like many readers, its characters are looking for a brief escape into another world. ![]() Emma Straub’s novel, The Vacationers, is definitely what you’d call a “summer read.” The swimming-pool-blue cover, with its floating figures in bright red bathing suits, looks right at home on the edge of a beach towel. ![]()
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