All we ever wanted was everything

By Janelle Brown

Subjects: Suburban life, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Divorce, Failure (Psychology), Divorced people, fiction, Fiction, family life, Rich people, California, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Mothers and daughters

Description: Over the course of an eventful summer, the three Miller women--Janice, abandoned by her wealthy husband for her tennis partner; daughter Margaret, facing bankruptcy; and teenage daughter Lizzie, dealing with the loss of her reputation--do battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, country-club snobs, their own demons, and one another.