All We Ever Wanted
Author: Emily Giffin
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
First Published: June 26, 2018
Length: 368 pages
ISBN: 0399178945
ASIN: B07639D2G9
A bunch of Nashville teens make some bad choices and a degrading photo taken of a sophomore girl at a party gets passed around their elite private school. To make matters worse, the photo caption included a racist “joke” made by the son of some of the schools biggest donors – and the girl is from a single parent family that doesn’t have the financial means to fight back.
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Publisher’s Description:
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 teenaged 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.