Only, where food was once the inextricable tie that binds, in All This Could Be Yours, it's the sticky, sometimes suffocating weight of New Orleans, so steeped in culture and vibrancy, but also darkness and secrets. Such is the case in Attenberg's new novel, All This Could Be Yours, which, similarly centers around a family saying goodbye to its patriarch on his deathbed. With eight different character viewpoints from a suburban Jewish family, personal histories and present-day struggles unravel as the novel's protagonist, Edie, deals with a life-long battle with overeating, often described in such vivid detail it's hard to tell if it makes you hungry or disgusted.Ĭall that Attenberg's talent in turning non-characters into narrative-entities - beings, so to speak, written with such clarity and vivacity that they feel alive. In her New York Times best-selling novel, The Middlesteins, author Jami Attenberg showed just how deftly a hand she has when it comes to crafting sprawling, rich narratives about family dynamics.
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