The narrator, Jewish Sophie Applebaum of New Jersey and New York, relates episodes of her life from age 12 to mid-thirties as she struggles to find her place in the world, ending up again and again with the wrong man/wrong job/wrong friends. Each chapter recounts another (failed) relationship, another (unfulfilling) job. Sophie's asides to the reader draw us into her life, which comes together in the last chapter . . . or does it?
(Wendy Swann - bwl 37 December 2006 ) |
