Tout vient a mourir

Tout vient a mourir is the French translation of All We

Want is Everything, Andrew F. Sullivan’s exceptional

debut collection of short stories.
This collection finds the misused and forgotten, the

places in between, the borderlands on the edge

of town where dead fields alternate with empty

warehouses-places where men and women

clutch tightly at whatever fragments remain. Motels

are packed with human cargo, while parole is just

another state of being. Christmas dinners become

battlegrounds; truck cabs and bathroom stalls

transform into warped confessionals; and stories are

told and retold, held out by people stumbling towards

one another in the dark.
Frightening, hilarious, filled with raging impotence and

moments of embattled grace, All We Want is Everything

is the advent of a tremendous new literary voice.