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| Editorial Reviews: | | |  | A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course 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 waiting years for ? until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune. Meanwhile, four hundred 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 struggling with 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 school slut.
The three Miller women retreat behind the walls of their Georgian colonial to wage battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, drug-dealing pool boys, mean girls, country club ladies, evangelical neighbors, their own demons, and each other, and in the process they become achingly sympathetic characters we can?t help but root for, even as the world they live in epitomizes everything wrong 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 a knowing and very funny novelist, wise beyond her years. | |
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| | I don't know how this tome got any good reviews. I don't know how this author made teen sex, quarter-life crisis, food porn and mean-girl politics boring. Very wordy with non-compelling characters. I couldn't wait to finish this tedious tale. I don't think the writing is up to par, I felt like I was reading a college kid's first novel - and not in a good way. Lacked soul and depth. Sorry, take a pass.
| | | I would not recommend this book to anyone - it's was very boring. I kept waiting for it to get better. It never did.
| | | After reading this books description I was very intrigued and the book definitely didn't disappoint. I was left wanting a little more from the ending, but overall it was a very good read. Once I started it, I couldn't wait to see what happened next. Brown's descriptions of these women definitely makes you think a bit about yourself and how your life compares to theirs, and that sometimes what other people think shouldn't matter so much. Can't wait to see what else Janelle Brown has up her sleeve!
| | | this book was very good it only took 3 days to read! I think its a great book for the beach!ENJOY
| | | Janelle Brown writes with such wit and hilarity and i laughed so much. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes to laugh with a good book that has amazing writing.
Editor of Jennifer Winston's women's bestseller How to Snag a Guy and Keep Him Hooked: 99 Ways to Make Him Ache for You
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