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ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS

Jami Attenberg

*BuzzFeed, "66 books Coming in 2019 That You'll Want to Keep On Your Radar"
*Publishers Weekly, "Buzz Book Fall Winter 2019"

From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a sharp, funny, emotionally powerful novel that urgently asks, How do we rebuild and break free from the painful legacies of the past?

"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. 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.

She travels to New Orleans to be with her family, but mostly to interrogate her tightlipped mother, Barbra. As Barbra fends off Alex's unrelenting questions, she reflects on her life with Victor - one full of ups and downs, one she worked hard to keep from careening out of control. Meanwhile Gary, Alex's brother, is incommunicado in LA, and Gary's wife, Twyla, is having a nervous breakdown in New Orleans. Dysfunction is at its peak. And as each family member reckons with Victor's dark past, they must figure out a way to move forward—with one another, for themselves, and for the sake of their children.

All This Could Be Yours is a piercing exploration of what it means to be caught in the web of a toxic man; it shows how abuses of power can infect a family for generations and what it takes to - maybe, hopefully - make things right again.

Jami Attenberg is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including The Middlesteins and All Grown Up. She has contributed essays about sex, urban life, and food to The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and Lenny Letter, among other publications.

IST ALLES DEINS!
Deutsch von Barbara Christ
[HC Schoeffling 07/2021]
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Published 2019-10-01 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Prickly and unsentimental, but never quite hopeless, Attenberg, poet laureate of difficult families, captures the relentlessly lonely beauty of being alive. Not a gentle novel but a deeply tender one. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred Review

Lithuania: Balto Leidybos Namai,

Jami Attenberg's work is so deeply attuned to humans and our imperfect attempts to love each other. All This Could Be Yours is populated by Attenberg's pitch-perfect characters; flawed, recognizable people dealing with big topics - death, family, sex, love - and 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, bestselling author of The Girls

Set against the vivid backdrop of New Orleans, Jami Attenberg's extraordinary new novel All This Could Be Yours is a deep dive into fractured family dynamics. In alternating voices, Attenberg expertly weaves together a chorus of love, betrayal and inheritance, each chapter a prism turned, revealing a new spectrum of secrets. Interspersed are gorgeous excavations into fleeting moments with strangers - the checkout clerks and ferry conductors passing through our lives - connecting this singular family into the larger web of life, where everyone is worthy of understanding and no one is without a soul. -- Hannah Tinti, co-founder of One Story magazine and author of The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

[...] Attenberg excels at revealing rich interior lives—not only for her main cast, but also for cameo characters—in direct, lucid prose. This is a delectable family saga. -- Starred review Read more...

China (Simplified): Booky;?Italy: Einaudi; ?UK: Serpent's Tail?

No one understands the contradictions of the human heart and how our grace and our failures reverberate through our families better than Jami Attenberg. And no one writes about our grace and failures with humor and compassion better than her either. Also - this book's structure is brilliant. -- --Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird