Claire Lombardo On ‘The Most Fun We Ever Had’
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Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Chicago Magazine called this novel "a Midwestern Big Little Lies — an intimate character study of a group of affluent, secretive women."
In this bonus interview, Greta talks with author Claire Lombardo about her debut novel, ‘The Most Fun We Ever Had.’
It’s the story of four radically different daughters from suburban Chicago. And it’s about love, family, forgiveness and the importance of showing up.
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| 0:19.1 | Love you Sam. |
| 0:20.2 | Okay. |
| 0:20.6 | Hey yo, no that's weird too. Oh, hey, Greta Johnson here, I host Nurdette. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey, this is Greta, I'm the host of Nurdad, and as many of you know, I have this other job here at |
| 0:36.6 | W.B.E.Z. where I anchor Saturday mornings. And sometimes I get to do super cool |
| 0:41.9 | interviews that we put on the radio. |
| 0:44.6 | And this week we had such a fun interview that was bookish, and so we were like, you know, |
| 0:49.8 | we should just like toss this in the Nurdet feed because the book fiends need to know. |
| 0:54.3 | So I'm going to bring you my interview with Claire Lombardo. |
| 0:58.7 | She just wrote this fabulous book. |
| 1:00.4 | It's called the most fun we ever had. |
| 1:01.9 | It is a great summer read Chicago |
| 1:03.6 | magazine actually called it the Midwestern big little lies though I should |
| 1:07.7 | say it's not super murdering it takes place in Oak Park which is this super |
| 1:12.0 | elegant old suburb that sits right next to one of Chicago's least |
| 1:17.4 | resourced neighborhoods. And the book is about a couple and their four grown daughters. |
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