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04077cam a2200661 i 4500 001 977EB836722211EC8552F59F363FDB2A 003 SILO 005 20220110083543 008 180802s2019 nyu 000 f eng 010 $a 2018036701 020 $a 9780525564232 020 $a 0525564233 020 $a 9780385545419 020 $a 038554541X 020 $a 9780385544252 020 $a 0385544251 035 $a (OCoLC)1052462126 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d MJ8 $d JSE $d SINLB $d PX0 $d JTH $d TCH $d LIV $d ETC $d OCLCF $d DLC $d OCLCO $d TXSCH $d DGU $d OCLCO $d PUL $d NRC $d OCLCO $d HZD $d OCLCO $d ZCU $d OCLCO $d OKX $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCO $d BUF $d OCLCO $d PRSPR $d OCLCO $d GYG $d MNE $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3612.O453 $b M67 2019 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Lombardo, Claire, $d 1988- $e author. 245 14 $a The most fun we ever had / $c Claire Lombardo. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Doubleday, $c [2019] 300 $a 537 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a 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, 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. Beneath 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 single tumultuous year following the arrival of Jonah Bendt - given up in a close adoption by one of the daughters fifteen years before - we are shown the rich and varied tapestry of the Sorensons' past: years marred by troubled adolescence, infidelity and resentment, but also the transcendent moments of joy that make everything else worthwhile. Spanning nearly half a century, and set against the quintessential American backdrop of Chicago and its prospering suburbs, Claire 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. -- $c From dust jacket. 650 0 $a Parent and child $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sisters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Family secrets $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Secrecy $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Parent and child $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Sisters $v Fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION / Literary. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Family Life / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Women. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Families. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01728849 650 7 $a Family secrets. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01737651 650 7 $a Parent and child. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01053308 650 7 $a Secrecy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01110644 650 7 $a Sisters. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01119758 650 7 $a Sisters $v Fiction. $2 sears 650 7 $a Daughters $v Fiction. $2 sears 650 7 $a Parent-child relationship $v Fiction. $2 sears 650 7 $a Secrecy $v Fiction. $2 sears 650 7 $a Interpersonal relations $v Fiction. $2 sears 651 7 $a Chicago (Ill.) $v Fiction. $2 sears 655 0 $a Domestic fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921742 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726589 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 $n 1 952 $l DRPC413 $d 20220110124317.0 $n 15 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=977EB836722211EC8552F59F363FDB2A 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search