All We Ever Wanted
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Average rating3.4
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Ratings12
Average rating3.4
"In the new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of First Comes Love and Something Borrowed, a woman is forced to choose between her family and her most deeply held values. Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. Her husband's tech business is booming, and her adored son, Finch, is bound for Princeton. Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs. His adored daughter, Lyla, attends Nashville's most prestigious private school on a scholarship. But amid the wealth and privilege, Lyla doesn't always fit in. Then one devastating photo changes everything. Finch snaps a picture of Lyla passed out at a party, adds a provocative caption, and sends it to a few friends. The photo spreads like wildfire, and before long, an already divided community is buzzing with scandal and assigning blame. In the middle of it all, Nina finds herself relating more to Tom's reaction than her own husband's--and facing an impossible choice"--
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All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin is a good read I can honestly say I enjoyed it. This is my second book by Emily Giffin but I don't see it as it being my last. I borrowed this from my public library and I am very glad I did. I am still trying to get a handle on my reading after being in such a slump of where I take way too long with my books. Her writing is superb and easy to sink into. What a great book! I have a feeling I'll be reading all of Ms. Giffin's books.
The story: Nina lives the perfect life in the prestigious Belle Meade community of Nashville. A successful husband, a son who was just accepted at Princeton, a beautiful home and all the designer clothing and home furnishings she could only dream about when she was a middle-class child and teen in the less prosperous small town of Bristol. Then it all collapses when her 18-year-old son uses poor judgement and shares a suggestive and racist photo of a girl from his school.
As Nina and her husband Kirk struggle with the consequences and how to minimize the devastating effect this could have on their son's future, she begins to realize how much she and her values had morphed since her childhood days in Bristol and her college days at Vanderbilt. She realizes that the way her husband deals with the problem are less than honest and she feels ashamed at how she allowed him to do that for so many years, and how his actions were turning their son into the same type of man.
As she struggles with doing the right thing through a myriad of increasing problems, she gradually begins to find herself again. This book will resonant with any mother who has dealt with the tribulations and clamor of a teen who has made stupid choices with grave repercussions. If that's you, reading this book will help you realize that even those who seem to have everything still struggle through raising a teen who is testing limits, especially in a world where social media and text messages can destroy lives in a manner of minutes. I hope to find more time to read this author in the near future if not 2019 has lots more of this author in my future.
