Claire Lombardo - Same As It Ever Was (paperback)

New York Times bestselling author and former Prairie Lights bookseller Claire Lombardo will read from Same As It Ever Was (now in paperback!), named a Best Book of the Year by People and Parade. "One of those big, grown-up existential novels about parenthood and marriage and teenagers and friendship and family life. . . Like [Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler's] best works, Lombardo's finds the vast and epic and universal via specific attention to family life. But there is also something new to it, something that is both easy reading and profound at the same time, specifically on feelings of failure and abandonment, all of it cleverly brushed with wit and humor." –Matt Haig

Claire Lombardo is the author of the previous nationally-bestselling novel The Most Fun We Ever Had, which was a Reese's Book Club pick. Her novels have been translated or are forthcoming in over a dozen languages. Lombardo is a graduate of the University of Illinois-Chicago and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in, among others, Playboy, Barrelhouse Magazine, Little Fiction, and Longform. Her story, "I Only Want to Talk About the Nice Things," was one of 2016's Best of the Net, and was #1 on Longform's 2015 fiction list. Prior to publishing The Most Fun We Ever Had, Claire spent several years working with homeless children and families in Chicago. She has taught fiction writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Grinnell College and worked as a bookseller at Prairie Lights Books. She lives in Minneapolis.

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