Mabel and Me is a novel about the Movies--a sharply observed, historically accurate, deliciously intimate story set in the earliest days of motion pictures. Beautifully told, this is a tale of Mack, his coming of age with the Movies, and his passionate, destructive, and ultimately liberating love for one of the very first movie stars, the sweetheart of slapstick--Mabel Normand. Theirs is the story of the birth of the modern movie age. It's...