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Everything is working out for Sophia, an Australian living in New York. Or is it? Sure, she has left the small town where she grew up well and truly behind and she has a coveted job in the most exciting and glamorous of places--The Museum of Modern Art. She and her boyfriend Robert have suddenly and unexpectedly become engaged. So why isn't she happy? When Sophia meets Cara, she finds suddenly finds herself questioning everything about her relationships and her career. But what are the consequences of not following a traditional path, the one that she will have if she stays with Robert and his respectable family? And what are the consequences if she throws convention to the wind and chooses something else? What does it mean to be modern in twenty-first century New York? In many ways this was an interesting read about a young woman, and the huge gap between how she appears on the surface and how she feels underneath. The narrative, filled with Sophia's many thoughts about her li...