A review by jaclyncrupi
All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg

4.0

There are a few writers who I feel write books just for me – Katherine Heiny, Curtis Sittenfeld, Kristen Iskandrian and Jami Attenberg – all American women of my generation who I feel have a definite shared sensibility that really resonates with me. I love Attenberg’s various literary devices deployed to make us consider our shared humanity, or lack thereof, and she puts them to great use here. A man like Victor was always going to be a tough character to read but I loved how rather than make this book about a bad man, Attenberg focussed on the good, if flawed, people who surrounded him. The minor characters she pulls in bring much needed respite, too. This didn’t quite hold me in its grip as tightly as some of Attenberg’s previous novels but I still loved it.