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Same As It Ever Was
Claire Lombardo
★★★★· Published 2024· 512 pages· read 2024
A big, engrossing novel about a stay-at-home mom coming undone, and the older woman whose friendship reshapes her life. Lombardo writes marriage and parenthood and loneliness better than almost anyone.
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