Early in Lisa's writing career, she teamed with her mother Carolyn See and close family friend John Espey to write three books under the pen name Monica Highland -- Lotus Land, 110 Shanghai Road, and Greetings from Southern California: A Look at the Past through Postcards. The three co-authors had a great deal of fun developing and poking fun at Monica's characteristics.
An example is Carolyn's enthusiastic praise of Monica on the back cover of the collection of postcards:
"No one combines joie de vivre, incisive intelligence, and a lust for popular culture quite as effectively as Monica Highland. In her two previous novels, Lotus Land and 110 Shanghai Road, she has shown a keen eye for recent history, and now with this radiant collection of antique California postcards, she shines as never before."
I love the idea of an author writing reviews of herself. When I was teaching the English novel, that was one literary genre I missed!
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