Anywhere but Here (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Mona Simpson
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1930’s to the 1970’s
- Setting: Bay City, Wisconsin, to Hollywood, California
- Principal Characters: Ann August, Adele August, Carol, Lillian
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Bildungsroman, Domestic realism, Family literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, North America or North Americans, Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, 1940’s, Midwest, 1930’s, California, West, U.S., Single parents or single-parent families, Hollywood
- Locales: Bay City, WI, Hollywood, CA
Form and Content
Anywhere but Here presents the ordinariness and the extraordinariness of the lives of four women in nine alternating, nonchronological sections that detail their hopes and fears over several decades, from Lillian in the 1930’s to Carol and Adele in the 1940’s and 1950’s to Ann in the 1970’s. Ann is the book’s most frequent narrator, arguably its protagonist, and the focus of the book revolves around her often stormy relationship with her mother, Adele.
The book begins with a crystallized moment of the tension between mother and daughter...
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