{"product_id":"the-lost-father-9780679733034","title":"The Lost Father","description":"In her highly acclaimed first novel, \u003ci\u003eAnywhere But Here\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ratifies the achievement of \u003ci\u003eAnywhere But Here\u003c\/i\u003e, attesting to its author's...dazzling literary gift and uncommon emotional wisdom.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A breathtaking piece of fiction; Simpson is a writer who can break our heart and mend it in the same sentence.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMona Simpson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eCasebook, Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eOff Keck Road\u003c\/i\u003e won the Heartland Prize from the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribun\u003c\/i\u003ee and was a finalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim grant, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, and, recently, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Simpson is on the faculty at UCLA and also teaches at Bard College.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844902916370,"sku":"9780679733034","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_96434c25-68f1-4bdc-a712-7a2c72cf31ed.jpg?v=1737336149","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-lost-father-9780679733034","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}