CLAIRE LOMBARDO is the author of Same As It Ever Was: A Novel (Doubleday), a national bestseller that has received rave reviews from The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, People, The Guardian, and NPR, among others. Her debut novel, The Most Fun We Ever Had, was a New York Times bestseller. It has been translated into more than a dozen languages and 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.