All This Could Be Yours
Jami Attenberg
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
Victor Tuchman - a power-hungry real estate developer and all-round bad man - is finally on his deathbed. His daughter Alex can finally unearth the secret of who he really was. She travels to New Orleans to be with her family, but mostly to interrogate her tightlipped mother, Barbra.
As Barbra fends off Alex's unrelenting questions, she reflects on her tumultuous married life. Meanwhile Gary, Alex's brother, is incommunicado, trying to get his movie career off the ground in Los Angeles. And Gary's wife, Twyla, is having a nervous breakdown, bursting into crying fits in drug stores. Each family must figure out a way to move forward - with one another, for themselves and for the sake of their children.
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Jami Attenberg'
Versatile, earthbound, and unforgiving ... a comic blend of messy family drama.
A dark, deliciously captivating look into the way a toxic patriarch can poison everyone around him ... There are no easy resolutions offered here, but that'
As family secrets unspool, the years of resentment and anger burn off in this tightly drawn novel ... Attenberg's unflinching ability to create utterly vulnerable and vicious characters, locked in a cycle of want and need, demand your attention...arguably Attenberg'
Gets so deep into the psyches of her characters that the story ends up seeming electric with ruin, and with possible resurrection.
A deep dive into the darker side of family bonds, <i>All This Could Be Yours</i> is another compulsively readable novel by Jami Attenberg ... This is a parable for our times.
A brutal and beautiful story of familial dysfunction ... Attenberg doesn't flinch from digging into life'
A great novel about an irredeemable man and the family he nearly destroyed in pursuing his desires without remorse.
A family epic that'
Unflinching ... a devastating dissection of the impact of bad parenting
An ambitious and utterly delectable novel about families and their secrets that opens up, pleasurably, like a set of nesting dolls.
No one understands the contradictions of the human heart and how our grace and our failures reverberate through our families better than Jami Attenberg. And no one writes about our grace and failures with humor and compassion better than her either.
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