MONA SIMPSON / My Hollywood
Mona Simpson, acclaimed author of Anywhere But Here and A
Regular Guy, has written a wonderfully provocative and appealing new novel,
her first in ten years. My Hollywood
tells the story of two women whose lives entwine and unfold behind the glittery
surface of
Claire, a composer and a new mother, comes to LA so her husband can follow his passion for writing television comedy. Suddenly the marriage, once a 50/50 arrangement, changes, with Claire left at home with a baby, whom she adores but has no idea how to care for.
Lola, a fifty-two-year-old mother of five who is working in
In a novel at turns satirical and heartbreaking, we see two versions of events: the upstairs competition for the best nanny and the downstairs competition for the best deal, and are forced to ask whether it is possible to buy love for our children and what that transaction costs us all.
“This big gorgeous
book is at once an entertaining, socially astute upstairs-downstairs drama and
a profound meditation on the shifting and often competing demands of love and
work in a woman’s life. One more time, Mona Simpson has burrowed deep into the
American family to extract the shivering truth about the many trade-offs women
face in raising children today. Lola, the Filipina nanny at the heart of this
book, is surely one of the great literary creations of our time. My
“In her first novel
since Off
“A darkly beautiful atlas of the American promised land, and a definitive novel of modern domesticity. Brilliant, in short.” -- Joseph O’Neill
“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
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
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