Jami Attenberg - All This Could Be Yours — in conversation with Matthew Klam — at Politics and Prose at Union Market
As she did in her deft double portrait of a family and a region in The Middlesteins, Attenberg in her new novel uses multiple perspectives to illuminate the secrets and sorrows one generation bequeaths another. Set in her hometown of New Orleans, the book opens with the impending death of Victor Tuchman, a ruthless real estate developer who exerted a toxic control over his wife, son, and daughter. While his wife refuses to reveal the truth about him and his son single-mindedly pursues his own career, his daughter is determined to understand how her father’s power—and his abuse of it—has shaped her life.