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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Commitment
  name:
    name part: Simpson, Mona
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 401 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: The story of a family whose single mom, fighting mental illness, slowly becomes unable to raise her family, told from the perspective of each of the three children. As the novel opens, a mother drives her eldest son Walter from their home in Los Angeles to the University of California at Berkeley. It will be her last fully responsible act before breaking down completely and being committed to a mental hospital, leaving her children behind. Holding tight to his ambitions to become an architect, Walter must cope with the sudden loss of his family and all financial support. With the help of a family friend, his younger sister and brother, still at home, barely manage to escape social services and foster care, but they must fend for themselves as they try to finish school and begin searching for their own careers. We hear each of them tell their own story as they witness the slow disappearance of their beloved mother into mental illness while they struggle to achieve the life she envisioned for them and to keep the family intact.
  note: Mona Simpson.
  note: "A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
  subject:
    topic: Mental illness
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Children of mentally ill mothers
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Success
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PS3569.I5117 C66 2023
  classification: 813/.54
  identifier: 9780593319277
  identifier: 0593319273
  identifier: 9780593319284
  identifier: 2022023269
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220519
    record change date: 20230518182407.4
    record identifier: in00004719714