All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg

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. Her previous books include Saint Mazie, The Middlesteins and The Melting Season.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. Jami Attenberg is a bestselling novelist who lives in New Orleans.

( From Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)Īll This Could Be Yours is available in Oct. 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. 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. '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.

All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg