All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin

All We Ever Wanted by Emily GiffinAll We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
Also by this author: First Comes Love
Genres: Women' Fiction, Women's Literature
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four-half-stars

In the riveting new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of First Comes Love and Something Borrowed, three very different people must choose between their family and their values.

Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville’s elite. More recently, her husband made a fortune selling his tech business, and their adored son has been accepted to Princeton. Yet sometimes the middle-class small-town girl in Nina wonders if she’s strayed from the person she once was.

Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs while struggling to raise his headstrong daughter, Lyla. His road has been lonely, long, and hard, but he finally starts to relax after Lyla earns a scholarship to Windsor Academy, Nashville’s most prestigious private school.

Amid so much wealth and privilege, Lyla doesn’t always fit in—and her overprotective father doesn’t help—but in most ways, she’s a typical teenage girl, happy and thriving.

Then, one photograph, snapped in a drunken moment at a party, changes everything. As the image spreads like wildfire, the Windsor community is instantly polarized, buzzing with controversy and assigning blame.

At the heart of the lies and scandal, Tom, Nina, and Lyla are forced together—all questioning their closest relationships, asking themselves who they really are, and searching for the courage to live a life of true meaning.

It is very scary rising kids this day and age. With Social Media and Fake News, sometimes I just want to keep my sons locked up in the house! It is a scary world out there and often times so much of what happens in out of our control as parents. This book really takes a deep look into how one post can change the whole trajectory of your life and the colossal mess it can leave in wake.  

four-half-stars