{"title":"Claire Lombardo PDF E-Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"same-as-it-ever-was","title":"Same As It Ever Was","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - NAMED A BEST BOOK BY \u003ci\u003ePEOPLE \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003ePARADE - \u003c\/i\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Most Fun We Ever Had\u003c\/i\u003e (\"wonderfully immersive...deliciously absorbing\"--NPR) returns with another brilliantly observed family drama in which the enduring, hard-won affection of a long marriage faces imminent derailment from events both past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Infidelity, dysfunction, secrets - this family novel delivers.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e - \"Lombardo has such a fine eye for the weft and warp of a family's fabric.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e - \"Witty and insightful...a powerful exploration of marriage, motherhood, and self.\"-Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLessons in Chemistry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSame As It Ever Was\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eshowcases the consummate style, signature wit, and profound emotional intelligence that made\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Most Fun We Ever Had\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eone of the most beloved novels of the past decade. Featuring a memorably messy family and the multifaceted marriage at its heart, Lombardo's debut was dubbed \"the literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e) and hailed as \"ambitious and brilliantly written\" (\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e). In this remarkable follow-up--another elegant and tumultuous story in the tradition of Elizabeth Strout, Ann Patchett, and Celeste Ng--Lombardo introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters, this time by way of her singularly complicated protagonist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJulia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the placid plateau of mid-life. But Julia has never navigated the world with the equanimity of her current privileged class. Having nearly derailed herself several times, making desperate bids for the kind of connection that always felt inaccessible to her, she finally feels, at age fifty seven, that she has a firm handle on things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe's unprepared, though, for what comes next: a surprise announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her spikey teenaged daughter, and a seductive resurgence of the past, all of which threaten to draw her back into the patterns that had previously kept her on a razor's edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSame As It Ever Was\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003etraverses the rocky terrain of real life, --exploring new avenues of maternal ambivalence, intergenerational friendship, and the happenstantial cause-and-effect that governs us all. Delving even deeper into the nature of relationships--how they grow, change, and sometimes end--Lombardo proves herself a true and definitive cartographer of the human heart and asserts herself among the finest novelists of her generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Good E-Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51067078246674,"sku":"","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/1009\/1026\/files\/SameAsItEverWas.jpg?v=1741785337"},{"product_id":"the-most-fun-we-ever-had","title":"The Most Fun We Ever Had","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Good E-Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51623370293522,"sku":null,"price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/1009\/1026\/files\/TheMostFunWeEverHad.jpg?v=1758628271"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.goode-books.com\/collections\/claire-lombardo-pdf-e-books.oembed","provider":"Good E-Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}