''The Lost Father'' is a novel written by
American novelist
Mona Simpson. It is the sequel to Simpson's first novel,
''Anywhere But Here'' and based on her real search for her father, Abdulfattah ‘John’ Jandali. It also contains a fictionalized portrait of her mother, Joanne Carole Schieble. Jandali and Schieble are
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' birth parents (although this fact does not appear in the novel).
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1992 novels
Arab-American novels
Novels by Mona Simpson
American autobiographical novels
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