The Most Fun We Ever Had

by Lombardo, Claire
ISBN: 9780525564232
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A heartwarming, expansive saga spanning nearly half a century that examines the peaks and chasms of the familial bond.

When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all that's to come. By 2016, their four radically different daughters are 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 when the darkest part of her past resurfaces; 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. Above it all, the daughters share the lingering fear that they will never find a love quite like their parents'. When Jonah Bendt, the son of one of the daughters, who was given up in a closed adoption fifteen years ago, arrives, he will upend the Sorensons' world and expose secrets hidden for years.

Lombardo's debut explores the triumphs and burdens of love, the fraught tethers of parenthood and sisterhood, and the baffling mixture of affection, abhorrence, resistance, and submission we feel for those closest to us. In painting this luminous portrait of a family's becoming, Lombardo joins the ranks of writers such as Celeste Ng, Elizabeth Strout, and Jonathan Franzen as visionary chroniclers of our modern lives.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Lombardo, Claire
  • ISBN: 9780525564232
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.01 x 1.10
  • Number Of Pages: 640
  • Publication Year: 2021

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  • This was not the most fun I ever had.

    Marcie H. - 5 years 11 months ago

    The most depressing love story ever. How can parents who have so much love for each other and their children raise such dysfunctional daughters? The story follows the parents and their four daughters lives into adulthood (though one daughter is merely a footnote) - until life altering secrets come to light. I know it made me feel better to know that the title of the book was a sarcastic comment and not seriously the most fun they ever had. All that being said, there was a little mystery and the need to know n=on my part.