all this could be yours by jami attenberg

Jami Attenberg is one of those novelists I am always curious about, because I read her books and I know they are good, but they never really connect with me on the level I want them to. As each family member grapples with Victor’s history, they must figure out a way to move forward-with one another, for themselves, and for the sake of their children.Īll This Could Be Yours is a timely, piercing exploration of what it means to be caught in the web of a toxic man who abused his power it shows how those webs can tangle a family for generations and what it takes to-maybe, hopefully-break free. And Gary’s wife, Twyla, is having a nervous breakdown, buying up all the lipstick in drug stores around New Orleans and bursting into crying fits. Meanwhile Gary, Alex’s brother, is incommunicado, trying to get his movie career off the ground in Los Angeles. She travels to New Orleans to be with her family, but mostly to interrogate her tightlipped mother, Barbra.Īs Barbra fends of Alex’s unrelenting questions, she reflects on her tumultuous life with Victor. Now that Victor is on his deathbed, Alex feels she can finally unearth the secrets of who he is and what he did over the course of his life and career.

“If I know why he is the way he is then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am,” says Alex Tuchman, strong-headed lawyer, loving mother, and daughter of Victor Tuchman-a power-hungry real estate developer and, by all accounts, a bad man.

All this could be yours by jami attenberg