Mona Simpson

A national best seller upon its publication, Anywhere but Here is a moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer....

A NEW YORKER AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 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. “A sweeping family epic that took me from one American coast to...

Claire, a composer and a new mother, comes to LA so her husband can follow his dream of writing TV comedy. With Paul working all hours and Claire left with a baby, William, whom she adores but has no idea how to care for, they hire Lola - a 52-year-old Filipina mother of five....

A powerful new novel about a young boy’s quest to uncover the mysteries of his unraveling....

Mona Simpson, modern master of the surreal family drama, trains her eye on a generation - and a man - torn between idealism and self-absorption....

All you have to do to become somebody’s God is disappear." The speaker is Mayan Atassi, the wise and frighteningly vulnerable heroine who captivated readers of Mona Simpson’s Anywhere But Here....

In Green Bay, Wisconsin, Bea Maxwell comes of age in the 50s, and Off Keck Road follows her extended circle along the arc of their lives....