Ebook {Epub PDF} Casebook by Mona Simpson

Casebook brilliantly reveals an American family both coming apart at the seams and, simultaneously, miraculously reconstituting itself to sustain its members through their ultimate trial. Mona Simpson, once again, demonstrates her stunning mastery, giving us a boy hero for our times whose story remains with us long after the novel is www.doorway.ru've read the novel's final page. "Casebook" (Knopf), by Mona Simpson, out April 15th. In the opening scene of Simpson's new novel, Miles Adler-Hart is hiding under his parents' bed. He's trying to eavesdrop on his mother ("the Mims," he calls her), convinced that she is having vital conversations with the moms of the other kids in his fourth-grade class to decide how much TV he will be allowed to watch. Casebook brilliantly reveals an American family both coming apart at the seams and, simultaneously, miraculously reconstituting itself to sustain its members through their ultimate trial. Mona Simpson, once again, demonstrates her stunning mastery, giving us a boy hero for our times whose story remains with us long after the novel is www.doorway.ru've read the novel's final page.

That's one of the many questions Mona Simpson explores in "Casebook," her beguiling sixth novel. Beginning with her auspicious debut, "Anywhere But Here," Simpson's big subject has been how. Casebook brilliantly reveals an American family both coming apart at the seams and, simultaneously, miraculously reconstituting itself to sustain its members through their ultimate trial. Mona Simpson, once again, demonstrates her stunning mastery, giving us a boy hero for our times whose story remains with us long after the novel is www.doorway.ru've. Mona Simpson knows this. The narrator of her new novel, Casebook, is a pudgy, underachieving, self-centered teenager named Miles. His family in Santa Monica, Calif., is falling apart, and all he.

"Casebook" (Knopf), by Mona Simpson, out April 15th. In the opening scene of Simpson's new novel, Miles Adler-Hart is hiding under his parents' bed. He's trying to eavesdrop on his mother ("the Mims," he calls her), convinced that she is having vital conversations with the moms of the other kids in his fourth-grade class to decide how much TV he will be allowed to watch. Mona Simpson Author of CASEBOOK Q: What is CASEBOOK about? A: CASEBOOK is about boy named Miles and his best friend, Hector, who spy on Miles’ mother as the family is falling apart. It’s a mystery and it’s also my attempt at a love story. Maybe love stories are all mysteries. In this way, especially, “Casebook” is not flattered by comparison with Simpson’s reputation-making debut novel, “Anywhere but Here,” in which a woman recalls her troubled mother.