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Same As It Ever Was: An immersive and joyful read from the author of Reese s Bookclub pick The Most Fun We Ever Had
Claire Lombardo
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At fifty-seven, Julia Ames has found herself with an improbably lovely life. Despite her inclination towards self-sabotage, she has a husband she loves, two happy children and a quiet, contented existence in the suburbs.
But, out of the blue, things begin to change.
Her always well-behaved son is acting strangely. Her beloved but belligerent teenage daughter is about to depart for college.
And, in the local grocery store, Julia encounters a woman she hasn't seen for twenty years - a woman whose friendship was once both her lifeline and, very nearly, her downfall.
All of a sudden, Julia's peaceful family setup and her long, affection-filled marriage face imminent derailment from events both past and present.
The author of The Most Fun We Ever Had returns with another brilliantly observed family drama, which examines the complete and complicated trajectory of one woman's life and asks what it takes to make - and to not break - a family.
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Praise for Same As It Ever Was: An immersive and joyful read from the author of Reese s Bookclub pick The Most Fun We Ever Had
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Witty and insightful. A powerful exploration of marriage, motherhood, and selfIt was such a pleasure to bury myself in this book, a literary novel of family life which moved and surprised meThis is such a wonderful book . . . It has everything I adore in a novel. I finished it in floods of tears, and had to sit for a minute or two to pull myself together. It absolutely floored me. What a joy to let a writer of such talent suffuse us with a life's worth of humour and pain, affection and mess!A big American novel to get totally lost in. Rich and compelling and funny and trueA family saga to save as a treat and devour when you should be doing something else, in which events past and present upset a long marriage - Independent
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