2020: Ultimately, I loved all of the characters in this book, and I thought Straub artfully tackled a lot of messy and complicated topics. However, there was too many differing narratives going on at once, and a more streamlined story would have been more successful. This book would make a great season (or two!) of TV; it gives me lots of "This is Us" vibes.

The idea of all of the characters being adults in their own multigenerational way perfectly plays out. Astrid & Birdie's story is so stinkin' cute, as well as Porter's whelp, I guess I'll just have a baby then. One thing that I really loved about this story was how pro-only children it was. Between Astrid thinking that siblings are ridiculous and unnecessary in old age (hard agree) and Cecelia "who'd been a adult all her life" (girl, I feel that), it makes me wonder if Straub is an only child.

The ending was blah; the book just sort of stopped. It did not wrap up anything (what happened with Rachel's husband? Did Elliot turn the abandoned building into a Beauty Bar??) I really didn't like the chapter narrated by Barbara, as it felt very out of place.

Cecelia perfectly encapsulates my feelings towards 2020 and my own future when she says, "And so five years sounded like an eternity. Now, instead of any of that, there was just a giant empty space, like her future had been abducted by aliens, a question mark floating in the sky."