Later, Indigo confides to Andrea that she is having marital problems. Indigo tells Andrea that she does not have to conform to societal expectations if being single makes her happy. However, when the time comes, she buys baby presents and visits the new baby.

Having lost many friends after they become parents, she assumes she will lose Indigo as well. Later, she is hesitant to go see Indigo’s baby because she doesn’t want to be reminded of the passage of time.

At Indigo’s wedding, Andrea, seated at the single’s table, makes a scene after she gets drunk and has her advances rejected by the men at the table. Andrea watches as Indigo marries and has children while Andrea does neither. Indigo, an old friend of Andrea’s, lives in Seattle. She breaks up with men soon after she starts seeing them because she grows bored or feels pressured by the relationship. She briefly dates Baron, a divorced man with a daughter, but is annoyed that Baron seems to want a continuation of his married life that Andrea can’t provide. However, she regularly finds that she is at a different place in her life. In addition, Andrea tries several times to start relationships with men her own age. Andrea begins to distance herself from her brother when she sees how sad and stressed he is. Greta gives birth to a daughter, Sigrid, who is terminally ill. David’s first band broke up after Andrea slept with one of the members, but his new band is more successful. Her brother David is a semi-successful musician married to Greta, a magazine editor. The book progresses episodically, presenting a number of different vignettes in Andrea’s life and the lives of the people she is close to.

All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg