Same As It Ever Was

By Claire Lombardo,

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK BY PEOPLE AND PARADE • The New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had (“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…

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2 authors picked Same As It Ever Was as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I was immersed in Julia's world. She is a flawed mother and wife in a long marriage, with all the ordinary issues of any long marriage. Nothing earth shattering in the plot, but I felt I lived in Julia's house, her neighborhood, I could see her kids, could feel her struggles with depression, with wanting to be a different kind of mother than the one she had. I read this as a library book, then bought it, so I could study Lombardo's careful details, the way she really puts you into the character's heads and hearts and homes. This is…

As I wade through middle age, I found some of the themes of this book deeply relatable. It is wonderfully written and normalizes how human and inadequate we all can feel.

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