There isn’t a single significant female character, and for a long novel, there isn’t much plot. Two of them are gay, one straight and one bisexual. Yanagihara ( The People in the Trees, 2013) takes the still-bold leap of writing about characters who don’t share her background in addition to being male, JB is African-American, Malcolm has a black father and white mother, Willem is white, and “Jude’s race was undetermined”-deserted at birth, he was raised in a monastery and had an unspeakably traumatic childhood that’s revealed slowly over the course of the book. While it lacks the bite of Weisberger’s beloved The Devil Wears Prada, this is still a fun, fast-paced read filled with well-crafted and memorable characters.įour men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions-as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer-and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives. While Charlie’s tennis game definitely improves, she struggles with some of the nastier aspects of her new life. Todd even goes so far as to help orchestrate a steamy romance with tennis champion Marco Vallejo, giving plenty of fodder to the press.
After all, did she really work her whole life to settle for being “the twenty-third best female tennis player on earth”? Rebranded and restyled as the “Warrior Princess,” she feels fierce in her all-black tennis garb. Gone is good-girl Charlie with her bright outfits and ribbon woven through her cheery braid. Todd not only overhauls Charlie’s training and fitness regimen, barking at her if she even glances at a cup of coffee or a simple carbohydrate, but he makes over her image as well. As she heals, she knows she'll have to fire her good friend and sweetheart of a coach, Marcy, and sets her sights on Todd Feltner, a tough men’s coach known for his brash attitude and cultivation of champions. At the last minute, she's forced to scramble and play one of the biggest matches of her life in someone else’s shoes, resulting in a fall that injures both her wrist and her Achilles tendon.
Known for her squeaky-clean and always-polite image, Charlie doesn’t argue when the Wimbledon officials deem her sneakers in violation of their strict uniform standards. Bestseller Weisberger ( Revenge Wears Prada, 2013, etc.) follows her formula of launching a naïve young woman into uncharted territory.Īfter a devastating injury at Wimbledon, tennis pro Charlotte “Charlie” Silver knows she needs a major change if she wants to take her career to the next level.
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