Show Notes
Oprah’s Book Club 124th selection is Little Wonder by author Sophie Chen Keller. Oprah and Sophie sit down with an enthusiastic audience of readers to discuss Sophie's childhood spent both in the USA and China and how that experience impacted her writing. She also shares how becoming a mother for the first time was the inspiration for Little Wonder. The story is about a profound bond of love that connects a mother, Song, to her son, named River. A cataclysmic roller coaster of events is set in motion when Song loses hold of River’s hand in the teeming crowds at a Beijing train station. Throughout this story of love, perseverance and hope mother and son desperately seek to find their way back to each other. Readers share that the climactic end had them in tears. Audience members also share the passages that moved them the most and ask questions of Sophie.
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- Welcome Sophie Chen Keller, author of “Little Wonder”
- Writing ‘Little Wonder’
- How Sophie found her title
- Her writing process
- Characters and plot
- Writing from a boy’s perspective
- Sophie’s love of piano
- The bumpy road to ‘Little Wonder’
- Why the novel was set in 2016
- Rewriting the book 3-4 times
- Motherhood in the novel
- Class in the novel
- Purpose and motherhood
- How Sophie relates to music
- Song’s grief
- Tchaikovsky and the story
- How Sophie knew the ending
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