Amy Sohn's six favorite books

Amy Sohn's novels include Prospect Park West, My Old Man, and Run Catch Kiss. She has written television pilots for such networks as HBO, Fox, and ABC.

Her new novel is Motherland.

One of Sohn's six favorite books, as told to The Week magazine:
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

All of Flaubert's characters are equally wrongheaded in their attempts to escape the prison of bourgeois life. That's