“Beha’s debut novel…is a thoughtful journey about the place of intellectual curiosity in relation to faith, friendship, and love.”
-Publishers Weekly
“It takes courage to write a book placing sincere religious feelings at the very center of contemporary young, urban life. Christopher Beha—a writer mature beyond his years—has done just that in What Happened to Sophie Wilder, a modern fable of faith and doubt, ambition and love, written with tender sentiment and striking moral intelligence. Open this book and you’ll find the grain of our talk and the soul of our thought rendered at once exotic and utterly recognizable.”
-Jon Raymond, author of Rain Dragon
“What Happened to Sophie Wilder is an old fashioned literary novel in the very best sense–thoughtful and intellectual, moving and well-wrought. Like its restless, yearning characters, it’s not afraid of the big questions, God and love, work and love, friendship and love, and yet the solace this impressive debut finds lies as deeply in the page as in the flesh or the spirit.  Beha has managed to produce a book that is satisfying for anyone who reads in order to live.”
-Helen Schulman, author of This Beautiful Life
“Christopher R. Beha’s What Happened to Sophie Wilder manages, somehow, to read both like an auspicious debut and a veteran achievement: it offers at once the vivid, old-fashioned pleasures of a classic bildungsroman and a frighteningly intelligent contemporary take on the ambitions and limits of storytelling and faith. It’s a glass-and-steel penthouse on a foundation of oak, and the most memorable first novel I’ve read in some time.”
-Gideon Lewis-Kraus, author of A Sense of Direction
“What Happened to Sophie Wilder is an imperishable gift of storytelling, a novel built sturdily of wisdom, beauty, and love. Christopher R. Beha writes with Jamesian sophistication about the enduring enigma of our inner lives, and the result is a title character who will dwell in you always.”
-William Giraldi, author of Busy Monsters
