From critically acclaimed New York Times -bestselling author Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer.
With her signature sparkling prose ( Marie Claire ) and incisive wit, Jami Attenberg deftly explores one of the most important subjects of our age..
ALL 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.
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.
Dysfunction is at its peak.
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.
As Barbra fends off Alex\'s unrelenting questions, she reflects on her tumultuous life with Victor. (A power-hungry real estate developer, he is, by all accounts, a bad man.) She travels to New Orleans to be with her family, but mostly to interrogate her tightlipped mother, Barbra.
Now that her father is on his deathbed, Alex--a strong-headed lawyer, devoted mother, and loving sister--feels she can finally unearth the secrets of who Victor is and what he did over the course of his life and career. -- New York Times From critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am, says Alex Tuchman of her parents. -- Parade This is how you write a very good novel about a very bad man.
Money, power and family are touched upon through Attenberg\'s emotional, humorous and sharply written accounts. . . -- Refinery29 Big Little Lies meets Succession in the scorching heat of the Big Easy .
All hail Jami Attenberg, the queen of dysfunctional families.
From critically acclaimed New York Times -bestselling author Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer
