Craved Mrs. Everything's decades-spanning family reckoning from Let wreck you next with The Most Fun We Ever Had.
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- Four sisters' rivalries & secrets explode
- Chicago suburbs: '70s → now timespan
- Infidelity & family wounds, no tidy endings
- Witty dialogue cuts through the heartbreak
If you devoured the decades-spanning ache of Mrs. Everything, Claire Lombardo's debut serves the same intoxicating cocktail: four adult daughters, one marriage everyone envies, and the Chicago suburbs bleeding from 1970s optimism into present-day reckoning. It's multigenerational ambition colliding with maternal guilt, sibling warfare dressed as love, and the unvarnished truth that family secrets don't stay buried—they metastasize. Lombardo wields Weiner's gift for gritty honesty on trauma, lacing infidelity and fertility struggles with dialogue so sharp it cuts.
This is feminism without filters: women rebuilding themselves from wreckage, bodies betraying them, desire complicating everything. The humor doesn't soften the chaos—it makes the heartbreak land harder, exactly as you need it to.
If messy, resilient women navigating generational reckoning is your religion, consider this your new scripture.
What Readers Are Saying
"absolutely enthralled at others...The Sorenson family was messy, full of both heartache and triumph" — BernLuvsBooks, Goodreads
"One hell of a dysfunctional family and I had a love-hate relationship with all of the characters except 15 year old Jonah whose appearance into their lives was what this family needed and they were what he needed." — Angela M, Goodreads
"This is about as good as character driven family sagas get! I love character driven family saga/dramas and this one has plenty of everything." — Michelle, Goodreads
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