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Author:

Simpson, Mona, author.

Title:

Commitment / Mona Simpson.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

401 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Mental illness--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Success--Fiction.
Nineteen seventies--Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.
California--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

When Diane Aziz drives her oldest son, Walter, from Los Angeles to college at UC Berkeley, it will be her last parental act before falling into a deep depression. A single mother who maintains a wishful belief that her children can attain all the things she hasn't, she's worked hard to secure their future in caste drive Los Angeles, gaining them illegal entry to an affluent public school. When she enters a state hospital, her closest friend tries to keep the children safe and their mother's dreams for them alive.

ISBN:

0593319273
9780593319277

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1319082936

LCCN:

2022023269

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