Everything is Not Enough

by Sandy Asher

Depressed by the comfortable sameness of his life and the predictability of his future, seventeen-year-old Michael tries to make his devoted parents, especially his father, understand his need to find his own direction in life

Genres: Young Adult

155 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Sandy Asher, a playwright and children's author, is probably best known for her young-adult novels and other prose works for young readers. Drawing many of the ideas and characters for her writings from her childhood memories, Asher has earned critical praise and numerous awards for novels such as Just like Jenny, Things Are Seldom What They Seem, and Everything Is Not Enough. In addition to fiction, Asher has also edited the story collections On Her Way: Stories and Poems about Growing up Girl and the award-winning With All My Heart, with All My Mind: Thirteen Stories about Growing up Jewish, which collect works that address many of the same adolescent concerns Asher confronts in her fiction.

Reviews

[Mansi]

I read this book over and over and over again in school. Reading it again after so long was like burrowing into the childhood blankets of my old bedroom back home.