We Have Everything Before Us

""It drops you right into the lives of Eleanor, Kaye and Sarayu and Phil. It's almost like looking at a traffic accident and you can't look away. These characters are very human with all the flaws included. It is described as ""unsparing yet sympathetic"" and that is truly how it shows you these people's lives. It was hard to have it end because you get so involved in their lives and want to know more of what will happen. Fast paced and hard to put down."" --Suzanne Christensen, Librarian ""Watch yourself. Esther Yin-ling Spodek has peeked in your windows, spied on your neighbors and hacked your email--and she's turned her wry observations into a sharply etched first novel, We Have Everything Before Us. Read it and weep (and smile in recognition). You've been warned."" --Sharon Fiffer, Author of Imagining America and the Jane Wheel mysteries ""Esther Yin-ling Spodek's We Have Everything Before Us is funny and sad and full of insight about love, loneliness and infidelity. After this impressive debut novel, I can't wait to see what Spodek writes next."" --Christopher John Farley, Author of Around Harvard Square ""In Esther Ying-ling Spodek's sparkling debut novel, hell is other people--and sparrows. Bored with her life and lot, Eleanor's thoughts wander to a high school flame. Things come to a head--as things are wont to do in this affluent Chicago suburb-- at a backyard barbeque. Blue skies darken, and the violence of a summer storm lays bare the self-doubts and self-delusions of the very real characters who inhabit this darkly comic send-up of everyday American life."" --Ian Morris, Author of Simple Machines and When Bad Things Happen to Rich People