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Mona Acts Out - A Novel Mike Deas to an army of discardedBy: Mischa Berlinski Published by Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2026 08 04 Celebrated stage actress Mona Zahid wakes up on Thanksgiving morning to the clamor of guests packed into her Manhattan apartment and to a wave of dread: her in laws are lurking on the other side of the bedroom door; she's still fighting with her husband; and in just a few weeks she will begin rehearsals as Shakespeare's Cleopatra, the hardest role in theater. In an