{"product_id":"commitment","title":"Commitment","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year--a masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Diane Aziz drives her oldest son, Walter, from Los Angeles to college at UC Berkeley, it will be her last parental act before falling into a deep depression. A single mother who maintains a wishful belief that her children can attain all the things she hasn't, she's worked hard to secure their future in caste-driven 1980s Los Angeles, gaining them illegal entry to an affluent public school. When she enters a state hospital, her closest friend tries to keep the children safe and their mother's dreams for them alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt Berkeley, Walter discovers a passion for architecture just as he realizes his life as a student may need to end for lack of funds. Back home in LA, his sister, Lina, who works in an ice-cream parlor while her wealthy classmates are preparing for Ivy league schools, wages a high stakes gamble to go there with them. And Donny, the little brother everybody loves, begins to hide in plain sight, coding, gaming, and drifting towards a life on the beach, where he falls into an escalating relationship with drugs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMoving from Berkeley and Los Angeles to New York and back again, this is a story about one family trying to navigate the crisis of their lives, a crisis many know first-hand in their own families or in those of their neighbors. A resonant novel about family and duty and the attendant struggles that come when a parent falls ill, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCommitment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e honors the spirit of fragile, imperfect mothers and the under-chronicled significance of friends, in determining the lives of our children left on their own. With \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCommitment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Mona Simpson, one of the foremost chroniclers of the American family in our time, has written her most important and unforgettable novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #e06666;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #e06666;\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/shop.nypl.org\/products\/book-stamping\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1558193756111000\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNE4SBzn1k3TNa_tCQWi89X-mAVqzQ\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.nypl.org\/products\/book-stamping\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGet your Book Stamped for Free\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mona Simpson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eType:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages: \u003c\/b\u003e416\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eItem Number: 9780593319277\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MPS-NYPL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44259298607326,"sku":"9780593319277","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0608\/5132\/3102\/products\/commitment-book.jpg?v=1688622187","url":"https:\/\/klevu-trustpilot-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/commitment","provider":"Klevu Demo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}