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Anywhere but Here
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A national bestseller—adapted into a movie starring Natalie Portman and Susan Sarandon—Anywhere But Here is the heart-rending tale of a mother and daughter. A moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer, the novel follows the two women as they travel through the landscape of their often conflicting ambitions. A brilliant exploration of the perennial urge to keep moving, even at the risk of profound disorientation, Anywhere But Here is a story about the things we do for love, and a powerful study of familial bonds.
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“Effortlessly poetic, shifting between brutal and beautiful. Though the book is fragmented and unconcerned with creating narrative momentum, every scene feels urgent and propelled by the ever-shifting, tight-rope walk that is Adele and Ann’s mother/daughter relationship. Sure, a different editor could have streamlined this into a tight 250 pages to the same effect, but ultimately, I found the book’s sprawling, meandering nature to be its biggest strength. Adele is right up there with some of literature’s most singular characters; towering and loathsome, yet pathetic and heartbreaking—with a uniquely American psyche.
I grabbed this one randomly from the used bookstore knowing nothing about it, other than it was a Vintage Contemporaries, which I usually like. After the first chapter, I thought I had stumbled on a masterpiece. And while it wasn’t quite that in the end, it was close.”Samantha Ard
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About Mona Simpson
Mona Simpson is the author of Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, and My Hollywood. Off Keck Road won the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She has received a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim grant, a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Writers’ Award, and, recently, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Simpson is on the faculty at UCLA and also teaches at Bard College.
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