Friends of Crowell Public Library Meet the Authors Series: Mona Simpson: Casebook Thursday March 12th 7:00 p.m.

    PASADENA, CA, February 06, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Friends of Crowell Public Library's Meet the Authors series continues with Mona Simpson whose powerful new novel, Casebook, is a witty, perceptive story of family life, part coming-of-age story and part detective yarn. The acclaimed and award-winning author of Anywhere But Here and My Hollywood, Simpson's latest is about a young boy's quest to uncover the mysteries of his unraveling family. What he discovers turns out to be what he least wants to know: the inner workings of his parents' lives. And even then he can't stop searching.

The boy's amateur detective work starts innocently but quickly takes him to the far reaches of adult privacy as he acquires knowledge that will affect the family's well-being, prosperity, and sanity.

Casebook reveals an American family both coming apart at the seams and, simultaneously, reconstituting itself to sustain its members through their ultimate trial. Mona Simpson gives the reader a boy hero for our times whose story remains long after the novel is over.
Mona Simpson moved to Los Angeles as a young teenager and attended UC Berkeley, where she studied poetry. She worked as a journalist before moving to New York to attend Columbia's MFA program. During graduate school, she published her first short stories in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review and Mademoiselle. She stayed in New York and worked as an editor at The Paris Review for five years while finishing her first novel. Anywhere But Here. After that, she wrote The Lost Father, A Regular Guy and Off Keck Road.

Her work has been awarded the Whiting Prize, a Guggenheim, an NEA grant, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the Lila Wallace Readers Digest Prize, Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, Pen Faulkner finalist, and most recently the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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The Crowell Public Library in the City of San Marino enriches and advances the intellectual, cultural, and creative vitality of San Marino by providing access to information that support the interests of the community. Pursuant to its mission, "The 21st Century Crowell Public Library provides: a gathering place, an information center, a technology hub and a book and media collection to serve the educational, cultural and recreational interests of people of all ages."

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