The Wonder Spot – Melissa Bank
This series of linked stories follows the life of Sophie Appelbaum, who is always left somewhat on the edge and for whom existence seems to be a series of mild disappointments. From school to career, dating and beyond, this is the literary version of Peggy Lee’s “Is That All There Is?” Still, Sophie prevails, and the reader closes the covers feeling older and more battered — but still hopeful.
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[...] Becky over at just read Sittenfeld’s Prep, a book that she had avoided because it looked like chick lit. But then she read something something called This is Not Chick Lit or some such, which Sittenfeld had contributed to. So she changed her mind and read the novel anyway. She was not impressed. It sparked a href=”http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19261547&postID=116076649555128219″>an interesting conversation with Nonfiction Readers Anonymous about the chick lit/not chick lit debate. NRA also pointed out that Sittenfeld wrote a scathing review of Melissa Bank’s The Wonder Spot. [...]