In this “rich, complex family saga” (USA Today) full of long-buried family secrets, Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, blithely ignorant of all that awaits them. By 2016, they have four radically different daughters, 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; 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.
With the unexpected arrival of young 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. As they grapple with years marred by adolescent angst, infidelity, and resentment, they also find the transcendent moments of joy that make everything else worthwhile.
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Claire Lombardo’s The Most Fun We Ever Had is a rich, sweeping multi-generational family drama that centers on the lives of Marilyn and David Sorenson and their four wildly different adult daughters.
Their fiercely devoted, decades-long marriage serves as an almost impossibly high romantic standard that their children constantly struggle to live up to while navigating their own messy, complicated adulthoods.
When a long-buried secret unexpectedly resurfaces in the form of a teenager given up for adoption years prior, the family's delicate dynamics are completely upended, forcing each sister to confront her own hidden vulnerabilities and resentments in a beautifully textured story about the chaotic, enduring bonds of sisterhood and parenthood.
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G-NRIS™ identifies The Most Fun We Ever Had primarily as Literary Fiction, Family Saga, and Contemporary Fiction. Its strongest themes include Family Dynamics, Secrets and Revelations, Love and Relationships, and Personal Struggles and Growth. Prominent narrative patterns include Family Secrets, Multiple Perspectives, Adoption Reveal, and Coming of Age.
Readers connected to this book most often reflect Psychological Moral Explorer reader archetypes. Their strongest shared genre interests include Historical Fiction, Thriller, Self-Help, and Literary Fiction. They are commonly drawn to themes such as gaming, technology, Seeking Dark Psychological Tension, and Exploring The Fractured Self.
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