A woman of twenty-eight, Mayan sets outs to find the father who left her when she was a child, eroding her savings, ruining her career, and flirting with madness in a search spanning two continents. Reprint.
In Mona Simpson's second novel, about a young anorexic woman's obsession with her absent Egyptian father, the protagonist is again Ann Stevenson of ANYWHERE BUT HERE, Simpson's first novel. Now a medical student named Mayan, she uses up her money, her emotional energy, and possibly her sanity in a quest for the father who let her down--the first in a long series of unreliable men.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Themes, Fiction + Literature Genres
- Subgenre: Family + Friendship, Types of Characters, Human Qualities + Behavior, Literary Genres + Types of Novels, General, Education
- Publisher: Vintage Books
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: January 1, 1993
- Date Published: January 1, 1993
- Author: Mona Simpson