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.
โIf I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am,โ says Alex Tuchman of her parents. Now that her father, Victor, is on his deathbed, Alexโa strong-headed lawyer, devoted mother, and loving sisterโfeels she can finally unearth the secrets of who Victor is and what he did over the course of his life and career. (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 tight-lipped mother, Barbra.
As Barbra fends off Alexโs unrelenting questions, she reflects on her tumultuous life with Victor. Meanwhile Gary, Alexโs brother, is incommunicado, trying to get his movieย career off the ground in Los Angeles. And Garyโs wife, Twyla, is having a nervous breakdown, buying up all the lipstick in drugstores around New Orleans and bursting into crying fits. Dysfunction is at its peak. As family members grapple with Victorโs history, they must figure out a way to move forwardโwith one another, for themselves, and for the sake of their children.
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 entangle a family for generations, and what it takes toโmaybe, hopefullyโbreak free.ย With her signature โsparkling proseโ (Marie Claire) and incisive wit, Jami Attenberg deftly explores one of the most important subjects of our age.