**Named a most anticipated book of the summer by _O Magazine, Chicago Tribune, NY Post, InStyle, Daily Beast, PopSugar_ , and _LitHub_ "Everything about this brilliant debut cuts deep: the humor, the wisdom, the pathos. Claire Lombardo writes like she's been doing it for a hundred years, and like
The most fun we ever had: a novel
โ Scribed by Claire Lombardo
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 354 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 038554541X
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โฆ Synopsis
Named a most anticipated book of the summer by O Magazine, Chicago Tribune, NY Post, InStyle, Daily Beast, PopSugar , and LitHub
"Everything about this brilliant debut cuts deep: the humor, the wisdom, the pathos. Claire Lombardo writes like she's been doing it for a hundred years, and like she's been alive for a thousand."
--Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers
A dazzling, 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...
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