Everybody Has Everything
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2013
- Category
- Family Life, Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780771068980
- Publish Date
- May 2012
- List Price
- $22.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780771068638
- Publish Date
- Apr 2013
- List Price
- $17.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781455522934
- Publish Date
- Jun 2013
- List Price
- $9.99 USD
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Description
Several chaotic, poignant, and life-changing weeks pose a fraught question to a most unusual family in this moving, emotionally gripping novel: Can everyone be a parent?
After years of unsuccessful attempts at conceiving a child, Ana and James become parents overnight, when a terrible accident makes them guardians to 2 year-old Finn.
Suddenly, two people who were struggling to come to terms with childlessness are thrust into the opposite situation—they are completely responsible for a small toddler, whose mother's survival is in question.
Finn's crash-landing in their tidy, urban lives throws into high-relief some troubling truths about Ana and James's deepest selves, both separately and as a couple.
About the author
KATRINA ONSTAD is a multiple award–winning journalist whose work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, the New York Times Magazine, the Guardian and Elle. Her critically lauded novels include How Happy to Be and Everybody Has Everything, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. Onstad lives in Toronto with her husband and two children.
User Reviews
They don't always have everything . . .
What a wonderfully written novel about what happens when you get something you thought you wanted and yet it's not what you wanted at all. A brilliantly different look at parenthood and the journey that both men and women take to get there, or not get there. I loved that this shows the emotional side of a husband trying to do best for his wife while fighting his own desire to be a parent.You will not be disappointed and you will be left wanting more, a perfect combination!