Book Review: A tour de force of a novel about a celebrated actor in the throes of a mid-life crisis

Have you ever woken up on Thanksgiving morning to a house full of company and just wanted to flee? In Mischa Berlinski’s extravagantly brilliant and darkly funny new novel, “Mona Acts Out,” the eponymous heroine does just that. Mona Zahid, a celebrated stage actor, has a lot on...