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About Amy Sohn
See more books from this AuthorTheo and Marco are good fathers, but elsewhere the children can seem patchily parented as the grown-ups flirt, kvetch, cruise via their iPhones, fall off the wagon and variously transgress in their preoccupation with personal fulfillment.
Aug 01 2012 | Read Full Review of Motherland: A NovelIn her latest satirical saga, Sohn records the crises and transgressions of privileged moms and dads spread across Cape Cod, Greenwich Village, and Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Jun 04 2012 | Read Full Review of Motherland: A NovelThough I read some critics’ reviews of my books, I don’t read message boards or reader reviews, just as I eventually learned to skip the letters section of the New York Press.
Aug 15 2012 | Read Full Review of Motherland: A NovelA delightful, witty novel about self-absorbed, angst-ridden 30-somethings in New York.
Oct 13 2012 | Read Full Review of Motherland: A NovelIt's the end of August, and Sohn's characters are in search of one last gasp of summer before returning to their regularly (over)scheduled lives in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood.
Oct 12 2012 | Read Full Review of Motherland: A NovelMotherland's intertwined narratives move along at a satisfyingly soapy clip, but its characters' perpetual misery and Sohn's penchant for strenuously current, celebrity-saturated cultural references eventually curdles like so much sour breast milk.
Aug 10 2012 | Read Full Review of Motherland: A NovelYou have to wonder: Is Amy Sohn the most coveted dinner guest in Park Slope, or the most dreaded?With her latest novel set in the much-mocked (yet envied) yuppie neighborhood, Sohn firmly establishes herself as Brooklyn's bitchiest bard.To someone who lives in "the Slope," as I do, Sohn provides ...
Sep 02 2012 | Read Full Review of Motherland: A NovelEqual parts moving and richly entertaining, Motherland is a fresh take on modern marriage that confirms Amy Sohn as one of our most insightful commentators on relationships and parenting in America today.
Sep 12 2012 | Read Full Review of Motherland: A NovelSocial satirist/Brooklyn mean girl Amy Sohn has returned to her cast of bougie Brownstone-dwellers with “Motherland,” the not-quite-sequel (companion?) to her 2009 best-seller “Prospect Park West.” Sohn, a former New York magazine dating-columnist and television writer, has since settled down to ...
Aug 28 2012 | Read Full Review of Motherland: A NovelAn aggregated and normalized score based on 83 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes