Carrie Soto Is Back

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Carrie Soto Is Back
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Author Taylor Jenkins Reid
Publisher Ballantine Books
Publication date
August 30, 2022
ISBN 978-0593158685

Carrie Soto Is Back is a 2022 historical fiction novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid. The book follows a tennis player as she attempts to return from retirement and defend her record of grand slam wins. The novel received the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for best historical fiction, and is set to be adapted into a television series by Netflix.

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Plot

In the 1990s, Carrie Soto is a retired tennis player, who had the most grand slam wins. That decade, she faces the loss of that record to a younger player, Nicki Chan, and resolves to come out of retirement at the age of 37.

Writing

Taylor Jenkins Reid is an American author who published her first novel in 2013. [1] Beginning in 2017 she published a series of novels set in the same fictional universe and centered around famous women: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo , Daisy Jones & the Six , and Malibu Rising.Carrie Soto Is Back was Reid's fourth such novel. [1] [2] [3]

Reid was inspired by the American tennis player Serena Williams. [4] [5] Carrie Soto Is Back was published on August 30, 2022, by Ballantine Books. Following the novel's publication, Reid stated that she intended to take a break from writing and did not have any further writing projects immediately planned. [4] [6]

Reception

USA Today deemed Carrie Soto Is Back "a perfectly timed ode to Serena Williams," noting that Williams had announced her own retirement a month before it was published. [4] The Week included the novel as one of its best books of 2022. [7]

Carrie Soto Is Back received the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for best historical fiction. [8]

Television adaption

In April 2025, Netflix announced that they had purchased the rights to adapt Carrie Soto is Back into a television series. Deadline Hollywood reported that Serena Williams was set to be the series' executive producer. [9] [10]

References

  1. 1 2 Mulroy, Clare. "Taylor Jenkins Reid is back: After hiatus, author surprised herself with 'Atmosphere'". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2025-07-08.
  2. Khatib, Joumana (2025-05-29). "Everything You Need to Know About Taylor Jenkins Reid". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2025-07-08.
  3. Goldsbrough, Susie (2022-08-26). "Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid review — a punchy tale of tennis superstardom". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved 2025-07-08.
  4. 1 2 3 Yasharoff, Hannah. "Taylor Jenkins Reid's 'Carrie Soto Is Back' is a perfectly timed ode to Serena Williams". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2025-07-08.
  5. Memmott, Carol (2022-08-17). "Review | For Serena fans, 'Carrie Soto Is Back' imagines a happy postscript". The Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2025-07-08.
  6. Brody, Caitlin (2022-08-30). "Taylor Jenkins Reid Is Done Writing Novels About Famous Women–For Now". Glamour. Retrieved 2025-07-08.
  7. "47 of the best novels of 2022". The Week. 2022-07-22. Retrieved 2025-07-08.
  8. "2022 Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Historical Fiction". Goodreads. Retrieved 2025-07-08.
  9. Andreeva, Nellie (2025-04-14). "Serena Williams Executive Producing 'Carrie Soto Is Back' Tennis Drama Series In Works At Netflix". Deadline. Retrieved 2025-07-08.
  10. "Serena Williams to Executive Produce Netflix Adaptation of 'Carrie Soto is Back'". SI. 2025-04-14. Retrieved 2025-07-08.