Jaclyn's Reviews > Same As It Ever Was

Unusually, it took me more than a week to read this. I wanted to read it but kept not wanting to pick it up and be inside Julia’s tortured but funny mind. It took me a while to realise that was because her interiority often matched mine and the discomfort of that was confronting. She thinks mean and petty thoughts. She’s lonely and vulnerable. She feels undeserving of everything she has, and she has a lot. Ooooffft. It was a lot. But it was also a beautiful big feelings novel of empty nests, self-sabotage and family. Lombardo has written another perfectly observed family drama and I hope she keeps them coming.