All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg

'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. Attenberg's unflinching ability to create utterly vulnerable and vicious characters, locked in a cycle of want and need, demand your attention.arguably Attenberg's best novel to date. * USA Today *Īs family secrets unspool, the years of resentment and anger burn off in this tightly drawn novel. Attenberg doesn't flinch from digging into life's messiness, pressing gently but resolutely into wounds to see what oozes out. * Nylon *Ī brutal and beautiful story of familial dysfunction.

There are no easy resolutions offered here, but that's as it should be. Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, BluebirdĪ dark, deliciously captivating look into the way a toxic patriarch can poison everyone around him.

And no one writes about our grace and failures with humor and compassion better than her either.

No one understands the contradictions of the human heart and how our grace and our failures reverberate through our families better than Jami Attenberg. Attenberg handles it all with an expert touch and a keen sense of what, despite all the sadness and secrets, keeps people connected, striving for moments of beauty and tenderness in a dark world - Emma Cline, author of The Girls Jami Attenberg's work is so deeply attuned to humans and our imperfect attempts to love each other. * The New York Times *Īn ambitious and utterly delectable novel about families and their secrets that opens up, pleasurably, like a set of nesting dolls. Gets so deep into the psyches of her characters that the story ends up seeming electric with ruin, and with possible resurrection. Roxane GayĪ deep dive into the darker side of family bonds, All This Could Be Yours is another compulsively readable novel by Jami Attenberg. Jean Hannah EdelsteinĪ great novel about an irredeemable man and the family he nearly destroyed in pursuing his desires without remorse. A family epic that's pointed and funny, touching and true: in All This Could Be Yours, Jami Attenberg captures the shades of light and dark that swirl among his people as a patriarch lays dying the anxieties of our current era the breaths and beats of New Orleans.

All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg