The Most Fun We Ever Had

by Claire Lombardo

four girls

Wendy violet lisa grace

Marilyn Sorenson, née Connolly—a

conversant in both literary criticism and the lives of her children, wearing a fitted forest green sheath that exposed the athletic curve of her calves and the freckled landscape of her shoulders. People kept referring to her with great drama as the mother of the bride, and

Violet, her second-born, a striking brunette in silk chiffon, had uncharacteristically reeked of booze since breakfast.

Wendy Violet Liza Grace

Wendy was always cause for concern, despite seeming less beleaguered today, owing either to the fact that she’d just married a man who had bank accounts in the Caymans

Grace and Liza, nine years apart but both maladjusted, the former a shy, stunted soon-to-be second-grader and the latter about to friendlessly f...