Attenberg excels at revealing rich interior lives-not only for her main cast, but also for cameo characters-in direct, lucid prose. All This Could Be Yours Jami Attenberg Buy Now Indiebound Publisher Houghton Mifflin Date OctoFiction From critically acclaimed New York Times -bestselling author Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets in which adult siblings Alex and Gary respond to their father’s impending death with opposing tacks. As Victor fades, the family’s dysfunction comes to light and they make drastic choices about their future. Gary’s wife, Twyla, slips into a nervous breakdown during a cosmetic shopping spree, slowly revealing the true root of her distress. Victor’s son Gary, who is in Los Angeles to jump-start his career in the movies, avoids answering calls from the family and intentionally misses his flight. You May Also Like All This Could Be Yours - by Jami Attenberg (Paperback) All This Could Be Yours - by Jami Attenberg (Paperback) 12.99 Well, Girl - by. His daughter, Alex, flies in from Chicago, desperate to know the truth about Victor’s criminal past, and begrudges her mother’s insistence she let it go and make peace. His wife, Barbra, still annoyed about leaving their Connecticut mansion, occupies herself with obsessive walking while remembering Victor’s quick transition from shy suitor to abusive tyrant.

During his final, lingering day, his family mentally rehashes key moments of his life in hopes of understanding the man they are losing. Shady real estate developer Victor Tuchman suffers a heart attack in New Orleans and is rushed to the hospital. Jami Attenberg ‘s sixth novel All This Could Be Yours has earned her some thematically consistent praise: oddly sparkling master of warped family sagas (NPR), poet laureate of. Set in New Orleans - with back story in New York - its the story of the Tuchman family. A patriarch’s death strains a family’s already fraught relationships in this dazzling novel from Attenberg ( All Grown Up). 'All This Could Be Yours' is American author Jami Attenbergs new novel.

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