The book begins just before Christmas, 15 years later, as the family plans a trip to Nebraska to visit Neal’s mother. The trouble is that Georgie, after having fallen for a wonderfully romantic Christmastime marriage proposal in 1998, has stopped paying much attention to Neal, her husband. That doesn’t keep Rowell from naming her heroine Georgie McCool or making Georgie adorable. Simply because it involves a couple with two children and a marriage in trouble, Landline earns the adult designation. Rainbow Rowell is well-known for both types: Eleanor & Park and Fangirl in the young-adult genre, and Attachments and the new Landline for adults. Stephen Colbert defined the phenomenon this way: “As far as I can tell, a young-adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.” The recent runaway popularity of The Fault in Our Stars (and anything else written by John Green) proves the point. From the “Oz” stories to the Harry Potter series, many books have attracted a crossover following of adults and younger readers.
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