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The Most Fun We Ever Had
A General Fiction Novel by Claire Lombardo
Subgenres:
- Family Saga,
- Multi-Generational,
- Domestic Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Messy Midwestern family sagas with sisters at odds
- Long-hidden adoption secrets shaking up adult lives
- Sharp portraits of women navigating love, loss, and self-doubt
From Little Stack
I’m drawn to stories of biological family members meeting for the first time, and this New York Times bestseller is that and more.
David and Marilyn have four adult daughters, each with her own challenges: a young widow, a doubting stay-at-home mom, an unexpectedly pregnant professor, and a secretive youngest child. But it’s the arrival of a teenage grandson given up for adoption that causes the secrets and strife among this motley crew to spill out into the open in this intergenerational tale that became a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick.
In this "rich, complex family saga" full of long-buried family secrets, Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, blithely ignorant of all that awaits them.
By 2016, they have four radically different daughters, each in a state of unrest.
Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator turned stay-at-home-mom, battles anxiety and self-doubt; Liza, a neurotic and newly tenured professor, finds herself pregnant with a baby she's not sure she wants by a man she's not sure she loves; and Grace, the dawdling youngest daughter, begins living a lie that no one in her family even suspects.
With the unexpected arrival of young Jonah Bendt—a child placed for adoption by one of the daughters fifteen years before—the Sorensons will be forced to reckon with the rich and varied tapestry of their past.
As they grapple with years marred by adolescent angst, infidelity, and resentment, they also find the transcendent moments of joy that make everything else worthwhile.
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Same As It Ever Was
2024
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