Every year, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books becomes livelier and brighter due to the growing number of attendees. From book lovers, casual readers, and literary collectors to authors and publishers, people gathered to celebrate literacy.
The largest book festival in the US opened its doors last April for a glamorous two-day weekend celebration with the bookworms. Held at the University of Southern California, many book enthusiasts, book lovers, and book collectors, as well as writers, established authors, and many more, attended the free event.
A lot of bookfair-goers went by the Citi of Books booth to check for their next read and potential favorite book. One of the books that were chosen is “According to My Father” by Andrew Grof. It was displayed on April 20th and 21st at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California.
Andrew Grof was born and raised in Hungary. After fleeing the communist regime with his family, he emigrated to the United States. He is the author of four critically acclaimed novels, all published by Sunstone Press: The Goldberg Variations (also translated and published by Argumentum Press in Hungary, 2014), Everyone Loves Ronald McDonald, Artists, and Lost Loves. He currently resides in Miami, Florida, after retiring from Florida International University as a humanities librarian and adjunct professor of English and Honors Studies.
The narrator of “According to My Father” invites readers into an absurdist world where time and place are nothing. Rarely do we arrive at the slaughter of the Crusades before a zeppelin soars over the Arno in Renaissance Florence, and before we can gather our thoughts, Cologne is reduced to rubble by Allied bombardment. Then we find ourselves having an espresso with Freud in fin-de-siecle Vienna.
Andrew Grof’s book “According to My Father” was also given a Hollywood-style script, and if developed into a picture with the concerns stated in mind, it will have a good chance of success in the film industry. Because there are numerous options to expand the plot and provide new twists, the story has a lot of potential to be converted into a gripping TV series.
Purchase the book here: https://citiofbooks.com/book-author/andrew-grof/.
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