Commitment by Simpson, Mona

Commitment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780593312964)

Vendor: Mona Simpson
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Format: Paperback
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Commitment by Simpson, Mona

Commitment

$18.00
Commitment by Simpson, Mona

Commitment

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s.

When Diane Aziz drives her oldest son, Walter, from Los Angeles to college at UC Berkeley, it will be her last parental act before falling into a deep depression. When she enters a state hospital, her closest friend tries to keep the children safe and their mother's dreams for them alive.

At Berkeley, Walter discovers a passion for architecture just as he realizes his life as a student may need to end for lack of funds. Back home in LA, his sister, Lina, watches her classmates prepare for Ivy league schools, and wants to go east with them. And Donny, the little brother everybody loves, begins to hide in plain sight, coding, gaming, and drifting towards a life on the beach, where he falls into an escalating relationship with drugs.

Moving from Berkeley and Los Angeles to New York and back again, this is a story about one family trying to navigate the crisis of their lives. With Commitment, Mona Simpson has written an important and unforgettable novel.

Author: Mona Simpson
ISBN-10: 0593312961
ISBN-13: 9780593312964
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2024
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
By Mona Simpson
By Mona Simpson
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MONA SIMPSON is the author of Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, My Hollywood, and Casebook. She has received a Whiting Writer's award, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, an NEA fellowship, a Guggenheim grant, a Lila Wallace Prize, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Mary McCarthy Prize. Off Keck Road was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune. She was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is the publisher of The Paris Review, where she worked as an editor in her twenties. She lives in Santa Monica, California. She's on the faculty at UCLA, where she often teaches Middlemarch.

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