Meet the Sorenson Family./ Marilyn has somehow fallen into motherhood and spent four decades married toDavid, who's pretty certain he loves her more than anyone has ever loved another person. Wendy, their eldest, a cause for concern, soothes herself with drink after being widowed young, while Violet, lawyer-turned-stay-at-home-mother, is disturbed by the reappearance of a son placed for adoption fifteen years earlier. Liza, a professor, is pregnant with a baby she's not sure she wants by a man she's not sure she loves and Grace, their dawdling youngest daughter, lives a lie that no one in her family suspects./‘If ever there were to be a literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler, then Claire Lombardo's outstanding debut, which ranges from ebullience to despair by way of caustic but intense familial bonds, would be a worthy offspring...This is a novel epic in scope-emotionally, psychologically and narratively. Combining a broad thematic canvas with impressive emotional nuance, it's an assured and highly enjoyable debut.’ Guardian
