There were a lot of side-characters I found frustrating (Leslie!) and didn’t seem to add to the plot at all. I started finally being interested when Sophie talked about her past, but even those parts seemed to drag a lot at first. It was a rough start and I still don’t know why the book would have started that way. Stingo is working a dead-end job that he hates and complains about it for 40 pages. The first chapter of this book was almost insufferable to me. However, it took me forever to get there. I’m very thankful that it wasn’t spoiled for me. I had a lot of friends who were shocked I didn’t know how this book ended. Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman and of an awful wound in that woman’s past–one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.
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