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On the day Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, he informs his wife, Janice, that their marriage is over and that the new fortune is his alone. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, the Miller’s older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her hot actor boyfriend and is failing at her job, kind of spectacularly. Sliding toward bankruptcy, Margaret bails and heads for home, where her confused and lonesome teenage sister, Lizzie, is struggling with problems of her own: She’s become the school slut.
From behind the walls of their Georgian colonial bunker, the Miller women wage battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, drug-dealing pool boys, evangelical neighbors, and country club ladies–and in the process all illusions and artifice fall away, forcing them to reckon with something far scarier and more consequential: their true selves.
From behind the walls of their Georgian colonial bunker, the Miller women wage battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, drug-dealing pool boys, evangelical neighbors, and country club ladies–and in the process all illusions and artifice fall away, forcing them to reckon with something far scarier and more consequential: their true selves.
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An utterly engrossing tale of one family, three women, a facade of perfection and success – and the secrets and lies which undermine it all.
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In the heat of a west coast summer three very different women, each poised for success, find themselves failing spectacularly: Janice, a devoted mother and housewife who’s approaching fifty, finds she has been abandoned by her husband; her elder daughter Margaret, a magazine editor, is driven back home by towering debts; and her teenage daughter Lizzie is humiliated by the boys whose affections she has unquestioningly embraced.
At first they hide their crises – bankruptcy, addiction, promiscuity – from one another, but as the curtain-twitching world they inhabit begin to intrude, they find their secrets exposed. In the midst of the manicured lawns and country club whispers, the Miller women cloister themselves in their suburban home for the summer and confront first their personal downfalls, then each other …
From a stunning new literary voice, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything is a captivating and poignant portrait of women trying to stay afloat – and what happens when the world you know comes crashing down.
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- Publication date2009
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