
April '24 Pick
The Most Fun We Ever Had
Claire Lombardo
A multigenerational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in love after forty years--recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the...
The Most Fun We Ever Had
A multigenerational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in love after forty years--recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they've built. 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'. As the novel moves through the tumultuous year following the arrival of Jonah Bendt--given up by one of the daughters in a closed adoption fifteen years before--we are shown the rich and varied tapestry of the Sorensons' past: years marred by adolescence, infidelity, and resentment, but also the transcendent moments of joy that make everything else worthwhile.
From Our Book Lover-In-Chief
"Our April Reese's Book Club Pick, The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo is so engrossing, it was impossible to pick only 5 words to sum it up. This book truly feels like you’re a fly on the wall watching a real family interact. SO GOOD!"
"This book truly feels like you’re a fly on the wall watching a real family interact."


FROM THE AUTHOR
Claire Lombardo
CLAIRE LOMBARDO is the author of The Most Fun We Ever Had, the Reese's Book Club Pick for April 2024. She lives in Iowa City, where she has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Grinnell College and works part-time as a bookseller at Prairie Lights Books.
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