My Hollywood
A Novels, Abandoned, Audiobook book. Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had...
A wonderfully provocative and appealing novel, from the much-loved author of Anywhere But Here and A Regular Guy, her first in ten years. It tells the story of two women whose lives entwine and unfold behind the glittery surface of Hollywood.Claire, a composer and a new mother, comes to LA so her husband can follow his passion for writing television...
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Too many times I'd left him reaching for me, from a babysitter's arms. "Am I still a mother?" I asked myself... What parts of the day could I cut out and still give him enough? Paul never asked himself that. He thought he was a great dad. Mona Simpson, My Hollywood // Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work. Mona Simpson, My Hollywood // But would I have chosen to be Paul? I'd miss Will too much, the feel of his shins. Mona Simpson, My Hollywood //
Cath Greenman rec I was annoyed with the protagonist of this book, Claire. On the outside, I have so much in common with her. But on the inside I felt myself identifying more and more with Lola, the nanny. In the end I found Claire's "too cool to be a mom" attitude, her narcissistic and almost sickly attachment to her career, and her resentment of her... This is one of those books that is hard to rate. The mother characters are not very likeable, so in some respects the book is painful. It is an interesting look at the lives of immigrant women (often professionals in their own countries), working as domestic help in LA (they call them babysitters in the book). Negotiations, finding...
