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Normal People by Sally Rooney
05/02/2019 12:01 AM EST •
05/02/2019 12:05 AM EST
When it comes to exploring the complicated nature of human relationships, there is no better writer than Sally Rooney. Revealing brutal truths about love, pain, growth, and the things we do for appearances, her novel Normal People is a sharp and transfixing look at the evolving relationship between Marianne and Connell, two students who can’t seem disentangle their lives through years of shifting circumstances. Her characters have a particularly visceral intimacy between them, and Rooney has left me with what is sure to be my favorite book of the year.
Kelly, R.J. Julia Booksellers, Madison