I discovered All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Janelle Brown at a thrift shop, and bought it for $2.50. It's an Advance Reading Copy, and the need for proofreading was a bit distracting. I'm sure the final copy didn't have this feature!
BUT, the story was an enjoyable Silicon Valley family satire, where a long-married couple has just taken their pharmaceutical company public. The day the company goes public (this is all in Chapter One, so I'm not giving away too much of the story line here), wife Janice plans and prepares for a celebratory dinner with her husband and their younger daughter, who still lives at home. Janice is instead surprised with a telegram from her husband Paul stating he wants a divorce. From there, the book takes the reader through the summer months with Janice and her two daughters (the older one returns home, having failed at starting a magazine), each living their own lives and not sharing their burdens with the others, ignoring the impending divorce and what it might mean for their daily lives.
Each character let something get out of control, and each character is determined to fix her life on her own. The story makes it easy to understand how 'regular' people can get into unacceptable, irresponsible, dangerous situations. It seems that one bad decision follows another.
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything is a great sandwich book. Read it, enjoy it, laugh and gasp.
BUT, the story was an enjoyable Silicon Valley family satire, where a long-married couple has just taken their pharmaceutical company public. The day the company goes public (this is all in Chapter One, so I'm not giving away too much of the story line here), wife Janice plans and prepares for a celebratory dinner with her husband and their younger daughter, who still lives at home. Janice is instead surprised with a telegram from her husband Paul stating he wants a divorce. From there, the book takes the reader through the summer months with Janice and her two daughters (the older one returns home, having failed at starting a magazine), each living their own lives and not sharing their burdens with the others, ignoring the impending divorce and what it might mean for their daily lives.
Each character let something get out of control, and each character is determined to fix her life on her own. The story makes it easy to understand how 'regular' people can get into unacceptable, irresponsible, dangerous situations. It seems that one bad decision follows another.
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything is a great sandwich book. Read it, enjoy it, laugh and gasp.
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