Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was

Name: Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was
Start: 2024-07-23T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55406

Schedule

Tue Jul 23 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55406 | Minneapolis, MN

Join Moon Palace Books to celebrate the release of Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was on Tuesday, July 23rd at 6:00pm. Claire will be joined in conversation by author Jackie Polzin.
**This is an in-person event. Masks are required in store.**
Same As It Ever Was showcases the consummate style, signature wit, and profound emotional intelligence that made The Most Fun We Ever Had one of the most beloved novels of the past decade. Featuring a memorably messy family and the multifaceted marriage at its heart, Lombardo’s debut was dubbed “the literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler” (The Guardian) and hailed as “ambitious and brilliantly written” (Washington Post). In this remarkable follow-up—another elegant and tumultuous story in the tradition of Elizabeth Strout, Ann Patchett, and Celeste Ng—Lombardo introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters, this time by way of her singularly complicated protagonist.
CLAIRE LOMBARDO is the author of The Most Fun We Ever Had, which has been optioned for television by Reese Witherspoon. She lives in Iowa City, where she has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Grinnell College and works part-time as a bookseller at Prairie Lights Books.
Jackie Polzin lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with her husband, two children, and a small dog. Her debut novel, Brood, was a New York Times Editors' Choice, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and American Academy of Arts and Letters' 2022 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and 2022 Minnesota Book Awards. Her work has appeared in Lit Hub, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Idaho Review, and the Star Tribune Magazine.