The Times gets up close and personal with Prospect Park West author and Park Slope resident Amy Sohn today, talking playground politics and parenting roles. The book has garnered its fair share of attention, not only because it was snapped up by Sarah Jessica Parker who plans to turn it into the Brooklyn version of Sex in the City, but because it plays with and on so many of the stereotypes that abound about Park Slope. From The Times…

“The attractive female characters deem themselves too cool for the neighborhood (one thinks of it as Park Slob), while those who embrace the area are often characterized as smothering and semi-pathetic, reading self-help books like Great Sex For Moms: Ten Steps to Nurturing Passion While Raising Kids. Park Slope’s liberal values are also lampooned; a controversy erupts at the local food co-op over racial profiling.

Other true-to-life tidbits—like the ad for swingers posted on the Park Slope Parents message board—also make it into the book, which is sure to make it a guilty pleasure for anyone who loves, or loves to hate, the Slope. Anyone actually read the thing? Sounds like guilty-pleasure, end-of-summer reading to us.
A Park Slope Novel Seems a Little Too Real [NY Times]
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