Fiction by Mona Simpson
In this story, Ann and her mother Adele travel from their family home in Wisconsin to California, so that Ann can be a child star in Hollywood.
That's pretty much all that happens in the long and kind of rambling novel that gives us the perspectives of Ann, her grandmother, her aunt, and briefly her mother. The characters are well-drawn and believable, but the timeline skips around a lot. It's confusing and nothing much seems to actually happen; then when something actually does happen it is buried in the pile of irrelevant observations.
I read another book by this author that I liked, but this one I really did not care for.
I also read by this author: Casebook
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