Author Description

Product Description In this international bestseller, a woman comes of age in a poignant novel about forgiveness, pain, and self-discovery. Mona’s demanding mother ruled their home until a car crash took her life and changed their family forever. Left to tend to a distant father and a needy younger brother, Mona finds her new role almost too much to bear. And when a new stepmother, troubled and depressed, adds yet another crack to the family portrait, Mona’s forced to shoulder an even greater share of the emotional burden. Somewhere between her responsibility to her family and to her own life, Mona finds a route of escape: in a theater career she craves. But for every challenge ahead―romantic, professional, sexual, and familial―Mona wonders how much of her future has already been defined by the challenges of her past. An emotional, funny, and universal novel about the people, experiences, and choices that make us who we are, Mona in Three Acts is a revelatory journey of a woman’s self-discovery, forgiveness, and courage to finally speak her truth. Review “Griet Op de Beeck writes books that affect your organs: the lungs skip a breath, the stomach knots up, the heart leaps. Her characters hit incredibly close to home.” —De Standaard About the Author Griet Op de Beeck, born in 1973, lives in Belgium and has taken the literary world by storm since the publication of her highly successful debut novel, Many Heavens Above the Seventh. Her work has been translated into several languages, including German and French. Her second novel, Mona in Three Acts, was embraced by readers in the Netherlands and Belgium and is her first novel to be translated into English. For more information, visit the author at www.grietopdebeeck.be. Michele Hutchison was born in the United Kingdom and has lived in Amsterdam since 2004. She was educated at UEA and Cambridge and Lyon Universities. She translate