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The Book Show
The Book Show

Mona Simpson - Commitment

Published April 18, 2023 at 3:00 PM EDT
Knopf

Mona Simpson is one of the foremost chroniclers of the American family in our time. Her new novel, “Commitment,” is about a single mother’s collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s.

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