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    The Lost Father
    The Lost Father
    The Lost Father
    Audiobook22 hours

    The Lost Father

    Written by Mona Simpson

    Narrated by Kate Rudd

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    About this audiobook

    In her highly acclaimed first novel, Anywhere But Here, Simpson created one of the most astute yet vulnerable heroines in contemporary fiction. Now Mayan Atassi—once Mayan Stevenson—returns in an immensely powerful novel about love and lovelessness, fathers and fatherlessness, and the loyalties that shape us even when they threaten to destroy us.

    Now a woman of twenty-eight and finally on her own in medical school, Mayan becomes obsessed with the father she never knew, leading her to hire detectives to dredge up the past, thus eroding her savings, ruining her career, and flirting with madness in a search spanning two continents.

    "Ratifies the achievement of Anywhere But Here, attesting to its author's...dazzling literary gift and uncommon emotional wisdom."
    —New York Times

    "A breathtaking piece of fiction; Simpson is a writer who can break our heart and mend it in the same sentence."
    —Cleveland Plain Dealer

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 16, 2012
    ISBN9781455892204
    The Lost Father
    Author

    Mona Simpson

    Mona Simpson is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim Grant and the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. She is the author of the acclaimed novels Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road and My Hollywood. She lives in Santa Monica, California with her husband and their two children.

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