A wonderfully provocative, but also tender and witty novel that has received stunning praise in the US.
Mona Simpson is the author of Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, and Off Keck Road, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Heartland Prize of the Chicago Tribune. She lives in Santa Monica, California.
"Beautifully realized. . . . One of the most insightful books in
years about contemporary American life." --"San Francisco Chronicle
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"Simpson works habitual magic, showing how love travels, ownerless
and unbidden." --"The New York Times Book Review "
" ""Heart-wrenching. . . . This is a domestic novel and a highly
political one." --"Time "
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"Simpson is a virtuoso. . . . Expansive and original." --"The
Boston Globe "
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"[A] wise . . . haunting novel." --"People"
"A double-Dutch game of masterful writing. . . . Won't easily fade
from anyone's mind." --"Entertainment Weekly"
"In Mona Simpson's new novel about a modern marriage and its
discontents, the saga of its Filipina domestic sketches a new
variation on the American dream. . . . An intimate, ironic tale."
--"Elle
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"Wondrous work. . . . Painfully real and moving and funny." --"The
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
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"This is classic Simpson. . . . The most serious and potent truths
are told." --"O, The Oprah Magazine
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"An absorbing novel. . . . With her incisive portrayal of the
frustrations felt by working parents, "My Hollywood" could easily
be "Our Country."" --"The Washington Post Book World"
"It takes a very subtle, sophisticated and confident writer to make
our most common problems come off as unique on the page as they
feel at 3 in the morning. If anyone can do it, Mona Simpson can.
And does. But there's more." --"Los Angeles Times
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"Simpson's massive gifts--for unflinching precision, for artful
indirection and for the deft unfurling of imagery--are on vivid
display in "My Hollywood," a book that carries us down deep, into
the darkness of two distinct worlds, and lights them up, finding
all the comedy in the ways they are the same world, and all the
tragedy in the unbridgeable distance between them." --Michael
Chabon, author of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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"Simpson's novel shows the intricacies and inequit
"Simpson works her habitual magic, showing how love travels,
ownerless and unbidden, among children who need adults, and adults
who need children. 'Children, they are dependent for their life, '
Lola observed, back in Santa Monica. But so are adults. Sitting
with her friends, drinking 'nonfat lattes, ice blendeds, a dozen
small consolations, ' Claire asks, 'For what, exactly, were mothers
always being consoled?' Simpson gently suggests an answer: for
their fear of failing in their responsibilities, to their children
and themselves, the extent of which they'll only know when their
children grow up and tell them what they were." --Liesl
Schillinger, "The""New York Times Book Review"
"Simpson's novel shows the intricacies and inequities of domestic
politics . . . "My Hollywood" is a smart, topical, absorbing novel
that explores the macro economy, the micro economy and the world of
work, both inside and outside the home. Mona Simpson writes
adroitly about domestic matters, and sheo
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