Resourceful twelve-year-old Ann and her mother, Adele, travel across America in search of fulfillment, freedom, and their dreams.
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Summary
Resourceful twelve-year-old Ann and her mother, Adele, travel across America in search of fulfillment, freedom, and their dreams.
Description
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.
Awards
Nominated for ALA Best Books for Young Adults.
Critic Reviews
“"Brilliant, funny, astonishing." -- The New York Times Book Review "Stunning . . . Simpson takes on--and reinvents--many of America's essential myths." -- The New York Times "Mona Simpson writes with confidence, with a swagger. She is already a master." --Anne Tyler, USA Today " Anywhere But Here ”
"Brilliant, funny, astonishing." —The New York Times Book Review
"Stunning . . . Simpson takes on—and reinvents—many of America's essential myths." —The New York Times
"Mona Simpson writes with confidence, with a swagger. She is already a master." —Anne Tyler, USA Today
"Anywhere But Here is a wonder: big, complex, masterfully written, it's an achievement that lands [Simpson] in the front ranks of our best novelists." —Newsweek
"The two women in this book are American originals. Ann is a new Huck Finn, a tough, funny, resourceful love of a girl. Adele is like no one I've encountered, at once deplorable and admirable—and altogether believable." —Walker Percy
About the Author
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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