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A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall during the period of one eventful summer.
When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been longing years for — until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (on her behalf tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune. Meanwhile, 500 miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers’ older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her newly famous actor boyfriend and left in the lurch by an investor who promised to revive her fledgling post-feminist magazine, Snatch. Sliding toward bankruptcy and dogged by creditors, she flees for home where her younger sister Lizzie, 14, is fighting problems of her own. Formerly chubby, Lizzie has been enjoying her newfound popularity until some bathroom graffiti alerts her to the fact that she’s become the college slut.
The three Miller women retreat behind the walls of these Georgian colonial to wage struggle with divorce lawyers, collectors, drug-dealing pool boys, mean girls, country club ladies, evangelical neighbors, their own demons, and one another, and along the way they become achingly sympathetic characters we can’t help but root for, even as the planet they are in epitomizes everything incorrect with the American Dream. Exhilarating, addictive, and superbly accomplished, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything crackles with energy and intelligence and marks the debut of the knowing and very funny novelist, wise beyond her years.
