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This book showed a family and not one was redeeming in any way. I was ashamed of each at some point in the book. The fact that toward the end the women rallied and became less reprehensable is I guess to their credit. I wondered why I wasted my time reading about them.

This satire of the outfall of a divorce in the Silicon Valley millionaire haven of Santa Rita is an absolutely irresistable read. Funny, over-the-top and poignant, the story has a great plot following the lives of three very different women -- the mother in midst of a post-IPO divorce, the teenager in crisis, and the nearly 30-years-old magazine publisher who is sure she is a failure. A great and easy book to read.

An interesting novel with 3 main characters -- Janice, who is struggling mightily with being dumped by her longtime husband and their country club friends, and her two daughters -- one an angry feminist who finished college and started a magazine called "Snatch," which has gone under, leaving her frustrated and completely broke, and the other a somewhat innocent high-school girl who thinks she has become popular with boys until she learns that there's a scorecard in the boys' locker room where they're all keeping track of who's gone how far with her. Each character is psychologically interesting and complex enough to seem pretty real. I enjoyed this book.
"All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" was a national best-seller and named one of the best books of 2008 by Library Journal.

A very good read!

The blurbs and the synopsis made it sound more interesting than it actually was, however, the author does have a way with word play and description.