All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

Over the course of an eventful summer, the three Miller women--Janice, abandoned by her wealthy husband for her tennis p... (more)

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. (less)

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A smart, comic listen about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer. When Paul Mille... (more)

A smart, comic listen about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer. When Paul Miller's pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife Janice is sure this is the windfall she's been waiting years for--until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune. Meanwhile, four hundred miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers' older daughter Margaret has been dumped by her newly famous actor boyfriend and left in the lurch by an investor who promised to revive her fledgling post-feminist magazine, Snatch. Sliding toward bankruptcy and dogged by creditors, she flees for home where her younger sister Lizzie, 14, is struggling with problems of her own. Formerly chubby, Lizzie has been enjoying her newfound popularity until some bathroom graffiti alerts her to the fact that she's become the school slut. The three Miller women retreat behind the walls of their Georgian colonial to wage battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, drug-dealing pool boys, mean girls, country club ladies, evangelical neighbors, their own demons, and each other. In the process they become achingly sympathetic characters we can't help but root for, even as the world they live in epitomizes everything wrong with the American Dream. (less)