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The most fun we ever had : a novel Book
Book | First edition. | Doubleday, New York : [2019]

Book Large Print Book
  • 0 of 7 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
  • 15 current holds with 7 total copies.
Place Hold
Branch Call Number Location Holdable? Status
Caistorville ON ORDER On Order Copy hold / Volume hold On order
Fonthill FIC Lomba Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold In transit
Grimsby Fic Lom Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Checked out
Niagara-on-the-Lake FIC LOMBA Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold On holds shelf
Port Colborne ON ORDER New Book Copy hold / Volume hold On order
Smithville ADU FIC LOM Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Checked out
Welland Main FIC Lomba Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Checked out
About

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. Spanning nearly half a century, and set against the quintessential American backdrop of Chicago and its prospering suburbs, 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.
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  • ISBN: 9780385544252
  • ISBN: 9780525564232
  • Physical Description: 537 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2019]

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