Angelica Page discusses "Bountiful: Growing Up with Geraldine Page"

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There is a particular loneliness in being the child of someone the world has decided was great. The world gets the performance; you get the person who came home afterwards. Geraldine Page won her Oscar on the eighth nomination and was, by most accounts, the finest American stage actor of her generation. Her daughter has written the book about what that was actually like from inside the house, and she is reading it aloud on the Sunset Strip on a Wednesday. Angelica Page is an actor herself, which means this will not be read like a memoir - it will be performed, and that changes what a bookstore reading can do. The theatre people in this town have been waiting for this one: the ones who can still recite the Trip to Bountiful monologue line by line and get upset about it. Book Soup's event space is a narrow aisle between shelves with perhaps thirty chairs wedged in, close enough that the reader can see your face while she does it. Free. The film and theatre section here is the deepest on this side of the hill; browse it while you wait.