A national bestseller--adapted into a movie starring Natalie Portman and Susan Sarandon--Anywhere But Here is the heart-rending tale of a mother and daughter. A moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer, the novel follows the two women as they travel through the landscape of their often conflicting ambitions. A brilliant exploration of the perennial urge to keep moving, even at the risk of profound disorientation, Anywhere But Here is a story about the things we do for love, and a powerful study of familial bonds.

Author: Mona Simpson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/15/1992
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Pages: 544
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780679737384

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 28
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 78255 / Anywhere But Here


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/01/1999 pg. 511

About the Author
Mona Simpson is the author of Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, and My Hollywood. Off Keck Road won the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim grant, a Lila Wallace Readers 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.

www.monasimpson.com