Hello again everyone!
For the past week I got caught up in a book called The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud. The story follows three friends; Julius Clarke a gay half Vietnamese man, Danielle Minkoff a struggling TV producer , and Marina Thwaite the daughter of a notorious journalist. All three met at Brown University and moved to New York with hopes of doing something important. The three friends are now 30 and have accomplished very little. Danielle is the only one with a well paying job as a documentary producer, however she writes stories about liposuction. Marina struggles to finish a book she started years ago and Julius is a freelance critic who hasn't gone very far with his line of work.
During the spring of 2001 two men enter the lives of Marina and Danielle, one is an Australian magazine editor who is raging with ambition and a deep resentment of journalists. He becomes very close with Marina in hopes of destroying her father's reputation. The other man to enter the group is Marina's cousin, Frederick "Bootie" Tubb. Bootie is a college dropout who believes he doesn't school to learn. He move in with Marina's family with hopes of following in her father's footsteps. Both men threaten to turn Marina's and Danielle's lives upside down.
Obviously I'm not a 30 something year old struggling to get by, but I still sympathize with all three of them. Probably because I'm almost done with school myself and feel a bit uncertain about my future. There's also the fact that they all aspired to do something big and wound up being disappointed in the end. I think that happens to a lot of people. Overall, it was an entertaining story and I would definitely recommend it.
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