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“Baker beautifully expresses the pressures of growing older while not feeling older, as well as the comfort of being with people who knew you as an adolescent—when you were unformed and naive, as you might still feel from time to time ... A delayed coming-of-age story that’s both perceptive and absorbing.”
“Sharply observed, sardonic, engaging, intimate, and evocative ...
An exploration of how impossible it can feel, in the face of a world that seems so often invested in our imminent destruction, to want and know how to be good.”
“When We Grow Up is novel as anthropological investigation, a study of the class of people for whom adulthood begins at thirty.
I laughed, I winced, and I saw much I recognized in Baker’s exploration of how the self is forged not only by the circumstances of our birth and family and education but by our peers and friends. ”