The prickly Mimi outlines the parametes for an acceptable assistant: No Ivy-Leaguers or English majors. To ensure the timely delivery of her long-anticipated manuscript, her New York publisher sends an assistant to monitor her progress. Broke after losing her savings in a Ponzi scheme, Mimi now must write her long-awaited second book. “Mimi” Banning, holed up in her Bel Air mansion for the quarter-century since her classic but still-best-selling first novel’s publication. Already called “magnificently poignant, funny, and wholly original” (Library Journal), Kirkus summed it up as “the curious case of where’d you go, Salinger.” It’s a spot-on description, as Be Frank with Me has the poignant quirks of Haddon, the effervescent spirit of Semple and, at its center, a Salingeresque reclusive literary legend. Or, in Frank’s case, a lot different from everybody else. Be Frank with Me (William Morrow & Company)īe Frank with Me, with its eccentric characters in self-imposed isolation, their grand but sometimes misunderstood gestures, and idiosyncratic approach to coping with the ordinary world, captures the intensity of growing up just a little bit different than everybody else.
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