Join Read & Run Chicago founder Allison Yates on Wednesday, May 31 for an easy 5K (11:00 min/mile) in Oak Park inspired by Claire Lombardo’s The Most Fun We Ever Had, followed by an author chat at Fleet Feet Oak Park (102 N. Marion, Oak Park) with Claire Lombardo. On this run, we’ll see a few places the characters frequented in Oak Park.
About The Most Fun We Ever Had: When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all that awaits them. By 2016, their four radically different daughters are in a state of unrest. Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator turned stay-at-home-mom, battles anxiety and self-doubt; Liza, a neurotic and newly tenured professor, finds herself pregnant with a baby she’s not sure she wants by a man she’s not sure she loves; and Grace, the dawdling youngest daughter, begins living a lie that no one in her family even suspects. With the arrival of Jonah Bendt–a child placed for adoption by one of the daughters fifteen years before–the Sorensons will be forced to reckon with the rich and varied tapestry of their past: years marred by adolescent angst, infidelity, and resentment, but also the transcendent moments of joy that make everything else worthwhile.