This story of twenty-somethings in New York, affluent yet at a loss as to what to do with their lives, is beautifully written, and definitely thought-provoking. What drives us day after day, what is the moral thread running through our lives, are we even aware of one these days? For Sophie, Charlie ...
Charlie, the first person narrator of What Happened to Sophie Wilder, is lost. He's graduated from university and become at the beginning of this novel a one hit wonder. He's written a book but stuck on his second, and generally stuck in life. Sophie, one of his university classmates and an on-aga...
Take out the occasional mention of cell phones and the internet, and this novel could have been set at nearly any time in the 20th century. In fact I kept forgetting that it wasn't set in the 1960s. The internal first-person storyline feels reminiscent of Kerouac or Plath. While I found the idea o...