The Actress
Written by Amy Sohn
Narrated by Ann Marie Lee
2.5/5
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Amy Sohn
Amy Sohn is the author of several novels, including Prospect Park West and Motherland. A former columnist at New York magazine, she has also written for Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, The Nation, and The New York Times. She has been a writing fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts, Art Omi, and the Studios at MASS MoCA. A native New Yorker, she lives in Brooklyn with her daughter.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5What an utterly unnecessary novel.I read this because of the "inside baseball" look at Hollywood, and that was enough to keep me reading. But oh, this book is problematic. Maddy, as a character, is basically too stupid to function. Every character seems so concerned about whether Steven is secretly gay -- and it erases everything. Maddy seems to care about infidelity only because it might be with a man, as though if Steven were cheating with a woman she doesn't care. Everything is black and white, straight or gay, as though there is no middle option or room for complexity. It's grating. And the ending, ugh, so saccharine it's insulting. There's also an insultingly inaccurate pregnancy plotline with a magic "get pregnant from one single instance of unprotected sex" followed by a cringeworthy hyperemesis gravidarum plotline. I was insulted both as a woman with infertility and as a woman who had hyperemesis gravidarum. Either the author doesn't know anything about pregnancy or she wanted Maddy to be the special-est of special snowflakes, which I guess tracks with Maddy's characterization otherwise, but again, ugh.