Susan Lee compares writing her second novel, “The Name Drop,” to being in high school. “Sophomore year in high school sucks. You’re not a freshman anymore, so you can’t claim ignorance or newness,” responded Lee. “But you don’t have it all figured out like you might by your junior or senior years. It’s a year of greater expectations without all the tools to meet them. A year of flailing. A year you survive until you get to be an upperclassman. “That’s what writing the sophomore novel was like.