Having Everything

John L’Heureux’s previous novels have established him as a consummate prose stylist, a witty and ferocious ironist, and a deft explorer of the darker sides of men and women. Having Everything is a pitch-perfect novel in which L’Heureux’s many talents are on full display.Take a man who has everything—youth, looks, an important job, a devoted family—and what could make this man jeopardize it all for a moment’s flirtation with the forbidden? Having Everything is the story of Philip Tate, just such a man, and the nighttime drive that opens a door to his suddenly inevitable future. Behind that door live the Kizers—beautiful, troubled Dixie, and brilliant, kinky Hal. By stepping, without knocking, into the Kizers’ house and into the midst of their sad marriage, Philip sets in motion the near ruin—and perhaps the salvation—of his entire world. Fierce, ironic, and beautifully told, Having Everything reminds us that sometimes—in marriage, and in life—having everything is not enough.