Mona Simpson is the author of Casebook, Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, and My Hollywood. Off Keck Road won the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim grant, a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Writers' Award, and, recently, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Simpson is on the faculty at UCLA and also teaches at Bard College.

A Vintage Shorts "Short Story Month" Selection
The acclaimed author gives us a mesmerizing story of a family built, not by blood, but by second and third marriages and the relationships children have to "step" fathers, mothers and siblings long after their own parents have left them behind.

When Julie, an actress in her forties, receives a phone call from her one-time stepfather's newest family asking her to come to see him once more before he dies, she agrees to make the trip.
An ebook short.