Michelle Huneven and Mona Simpson will read from their new novels - TopicsExpress



          

Michelle Huneven and Mona Simpson will read from their new novels this evening at 7 p.m. at Prairie Lights Bookstore. Michelle Huneven will read from Off Course, a novel about a gifted Ph.D. student in economics who moves into her parents’ shabby A-frame cabin in the Sierras to write her dissertation. Increasingly resistant to her topic (art in the marketplace), she allows herself to be drawn into the social life of the small mountain community. Huneven is the author of Blame, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Jamesland, and Round Rock. She lives in Altadena, California, and teaches creative writing at UCLA. Mona Simpson will read from Casebook, her powerful new novel 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. Simpson is the author of Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, and My Hollywood. She is on the faculty at UCLA and also teaches at Bard College. She lives in Santa Monica, California.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:30:08 +0000

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