Claire Lombardo, author of SAME AS IT EVER WAS - an in-person Boswell event

Readings from Oconomowaukee presents an evening with Claire Lombardo, author of Same As It Ever Was. In conversation with Lisa Baudoin of Books & Company and Daniel Goldin of Boswell.

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the placid plateau of mid-life. But Julia has never navigated the world with the equanimity of her current privileged class. Having nearly derailed herself several times, making desperate bids for the kind of connection that always felt inaccessible to her, she finally feels, at age fifty seven, that she has a firm handle on things. She’s unprepared, though, for what comes next: a surprise announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her spikey teenaged daughter, and a seductive resurgence of the past, all of which threaten to draw her back into the patterns that had previously kept her on a razor’s edge.

Same As It Ever Was traverses the rocky terrain of real life, —exploring new avenues of maternal ambivalence, intergenerational friendship, and the happenstantial cause-and-effect that governs us all. Delving even deeper into the nature of relationships—how they grow, change, and sometimes end—Lombardo proves herself a true and definitive cartographer of the human heart and asserts herself among the finest novelists of her generation.

From Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry: “Witty and insightful...a powerful exploration of marriage, motherhood, and self.”

Claire Lombardo is the author of The Most Fun We Ever Had, which has been optioned for television by Reese Witherspoon. She has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Grinnell College and works part-time as a bookseller at Prairie Lights Books.

Lombardo will also appear at Books & Company at 2 pm, in conversation with Baudoin and Goldin. If you would like to preorder your book to pick it up at Books & Company, click here.

Click here to order your copy of Same As It Ever Was from Boswell. Signed copies and personalization available on pre-orders. Please note that signed copies will not be shipped until after the event.