
First Draft - Mona Simpson
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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The Story of Walter, Lena, and Donnie
The Aziz children are three siblings. Their mother, Diane, starts off kind of unshaky ground. She does what she can for kids and wants them to have a good education. The book started out at the point where mental health hospitals were beginning to empty out. It was a little bit of a what if I've always felt with my mom's life.
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