


She’s also worried that her father is drinking again, and she can’t understand why her mother is suddenly absent from home all the time.

Sophie’s frustrated that each of the Blondes has made her the repository of a secret, even though she herself has “come clean” about her family. Despite her realization, at the end of Me and the Blondes, that blondes also have problems, 15-year-old Sophie Kandinsky still longs “to be a Blonde in the deeper, metaphysical, spiritual sense, with a big honking house, fabulous clothes, and a shimmery blonde life with no complications.” But “no complications” appears not to be an option for her, what with her father’s recent release from prison and the fact that the “ever-luscious, heart-poundingly gorgeous Luke Pearson” has his eye on her.
