The Lost Father

Jacket Description/Flap: 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 DealerPublisher Marketing: In her highly acclaimed first novel, Anywhere But Here, Simpson created one of the most astute yet frighteningly 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. Publisher Marketing: 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" Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 01/04/1993 (EAN 9780679733034, Paperback)

Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/1993 pg. 840 (EAN 9780394589169, Hardcover)

Library Journal 12/01/1991 (EAN 9780394589169, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 11/22/1991 (EAN 9780394589169, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Simpson, Mona Mona Simpson is the recipient of a Whiting Writer s Award, a Guggenheim grant, and the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. Since 1988 she has taught at Bard College, where she now holds the Sadie Samuelson Levy Chair of Languages and Literature. She recently received a grant from the Lila Wallace Reader s Digest Foundation. She lives in Santa Monica, California.