num_pages: 401
description: A smart comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer.When Paul Millers pharmaceutical company goes public making his family IPO millionaires his wife Janice is sure this is the windfall shes 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 shes 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 cant 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.
language: English
title: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
publisher: Spiegel & Grau