Description
Adele and Ann August set out on a restless journey west, trading the suffocating familiarity of Wisconsin for the promise of reinvention. As a manipulative, self-dramatizing mother and her daughter collide—emotionally, financially, and morally—their survival depends on charm, improvisation, and the fragile hope that “somewhere else” will finally make life make sense. Told with Mona Simpson’s sharp psychological insight and compassionate realism, the novel explores the tangled bonds of family, the seductions of escape, and the ways love can be both refuge and risk. Across shifting landscapes and escalating tensions, the story asks what it really means to leave—and what it costs to become someone new.
Available Editions
paperback
Beeler Large Print
Published Jan 1, 1999
660 pages
ISBN: 9781574902143
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Details
First Published
1987
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson.