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Mona Simpson offers in small, absorbing increments a family’s encounters with hardship and grief, and ambition, avoiding as she does any hackneyed response—rancor, for instance, or indictment—and providing instead, with utter honesty, a paean to the resilience of familial love.” —Alice McDermott, author of The Ninth Hour
Mar 17, 2023 · On the Shelf. Commitment. By Mona Simpson Knopf, 416 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.
“Mona Simpson’s first novel Anywhere But Here is a wonder: big, complex and masterfully written, it’s an achievement that lands her in the front ranks of our best younger novelists. She charts the fortunes of a mother and daughter, Adele and Ann, who make their way from rural Wisconsin to Hollywood—‘so I could be a child star while I ...
Mar 18, 2023 · Donnie, the youngest, is twice neglected — first by his mother, then by Simpson, who mostly ignores him until much later in the book. But once Diane is in the care of a decent doctor, the path ...
MONA SIMPSON is the best-selling author of Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, My Hollywood, and Casebook. Off Keck Road was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune. She has received a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s ...
With her first three books, Mona Simpson has created a memorable cast of searchers who leave home in order to reinvent themselves, to find the missing parent or dream. But in this superb new novella, Simpson reveals the precise costs and rewards of staying—out of affinity and obligation, out of chance, circumstance, and choice.
Mona Simpson demonstrates, throughout this novel, a spectacular talent for rendering tumultuous emotional states with eloquence and economy. Speaking of the clarifying effect her father has had on her life, Mayan says, ‘He gave us ourselves back in real light.’
