All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
 

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

by Janelle Brown

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... (read more)

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Jennifer H
  • Rated 4 stars

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything is my choice for best book of the year. On the surface, it’s a superficial tabloid drama about a rich jerk of a husband screwing-over his Martha-esque wife for her best friend while their two bright, endearing, and tragic daughters blunder through their lives and the repercussions of a marriage that has gathered fractures over its 30-year span. But more importantly, it’s a story that reveals in its pages a clear, core, and brilliant bit of wisdom that many of...

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Sugar Malone
  • Rated 2 stars

Depressing and filled with charcters I hated, yet I couldn't put it down. Go figure.

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  • Rated 3.25 stars
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  • Rated 5 stars
 

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