The Most Fun We Ever Had

Set in Chicago, Claire Lombardo's multi-generational novel centers on Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson, who fall in love in the 1970s and remain devoted four decades on. By 2016 their four different daughters are all unsettled. Wendy, widowed young, consoles herself with drink and younger men; Violet, a lawyer turned stay-at-home mother, struggles with anxiety and self-doubt; Liza, a newly tenured professor, is pregnant by a man she is not sure she loves; and Grace, the youngest, is living a lie no one in the family suspects. When Jonah Bendt, a boy one of the sisters placed for adoption fifteen years earlier, arrives, the family must face its past. It was longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction.

Reese Witherspoon chose it as an April pick for Reese's Book Club, saying that reading it is like being a fly on the wall as a real family interacts.