The most fun we ever had
(2019)

Fiction

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FICTION/LOMBARDO,C

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PUBLISHED
New York : Doubleday, [2019]
©2019
EDITION
[Various editions]
DESCRIPTION

537 pages ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780385544252, 0385544251, 9780525564232 (paperback)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Also publisheed: New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020. 624 p

A multi-generational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in love after forty years--match wits, harbor grudges, and 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'