{"product_id":"commitment-9780593312964","title":"Commitment","description":"\u003cb\u003eA masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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. When she enters a state hospital, her closest friend tries to keep the children safe and their mother's dreams for them alive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt Berkeley, Walter discovers a passion for architecture just as he realizes his life as a student may need to end for lack of funds. Back home in LA, his sister, Lina, watches her classmates prepare for Ivy league schools, and wants to go east with them. And Donny, the little brother everybody loves, begins to hide in plain sight, coding, gaming, and drifting towards a life on the beach, where he falls into an escalating relationship with drugs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving from Berkeley and Los Angeles to New York and back again, this is a story about one family trying to navigate the crisis of their lives. With \u003ci\u003eCommitment\u003c\/i\u003e, Mona Simpson has written an important and unforgettable novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMONA SIMPSON is the author of \u003ci\u003eAnywhere But Here\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Father\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Regular Guy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOff Keck Road\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMy Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCasebook\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received a Whiting Writer's award, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, an NEA fellowship, a Guggenheim grant, a Lila Wallace Prize, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Mary McCarthy Prize. \u003ci\u003eOff Keck Road\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award and won the Heartland Prize from the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e. She was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is the publisher of \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, where she worked as an editor in her twenties. She lives in Santa Monica, California. She's on the faculty at UCLA, where she often teaches \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50618589511954,"sku":"9780593312964","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b51820c8-5bee-4de4-8abf-d926430e058c.jpg?v=1732538562","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/commitment-9780593312964","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}