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Time for a Literary Road Trip


In a typical year, when the thick summer heat descends, you might plot an escape from everyday life. But this is not a typical year, and whether you’re trapped in your home office or on your couch, the urge to get away from it all is likely stronger than ever. A road trip — one way to take a cautious vacation — might be the answer to this malaise. But if you’ll be staying put, these books offer the thrills of the open road, of driving fast into a new reality, far from the safety of your own home.

The title of Mona Simpson’s first novel, “Anywhere But Here,” might capture your current mood. But hopefully you have it better than Ann, the 12-year-old daughter of the charismatic yet impulsive Adele. The pair flee Wisconsin for California in the hopes of making Ann a child star, yet their path is littered with Adele’s emotional detritus. The story’s rich details, our reviewer wrote in 1987, are “generous irrelevances — the author taking time out from her characters and their battling to enjoy the world that contains them and us.”



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