The most fun we ever had, paperback/claire lombardo

Longlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all that awaits them.

By 2016, their four radically different daughters are 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 shes not sure she wants by a man shes not sure she loves; and Grace, the dawdling youngest daughter, begins living a lie that no one in her family even suspects.

With the arrival of 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: years marred by adolescent angst, infidelity, and resentment, but also the transcendent moments of joy that make everything else worthwhile.

About the Author Claire Lombardo earned her MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers Workshop.

Prior to writing The Most Fun We Ever Had , she spent several years doing social work in Chicago.

She was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois.