These two women, struggling towards growth and self-understanding, exchange lengthy emails shared throughout the book about topics both personal and political.
Eileen on the other hand is reconnecting with an ex after a recent breakup. When the novel begins, Alice is a novelist facing ambivalence about her career’s success so, she picks up her things and promptly heads to Rome with a man she’s just met through Tinder. And through it all, the novel grapples with how compelling these elements of our lives can be despite their seeming triviality in the face of a world that just might be on the brink of disaster.Īt the center of Beautiful World, Where Are You is the friendship of Alice and Eileen. Friends become lovers, become colleagues, and then sometimes double back.
Her whip smart stories of 20-somethings muddling through reach new heights in Beautiful World, Where Are You with its unnerving and witty portrait of relationships that constantly evade sure footing. Since bursting onto the literary scene with her debut Conversations with Friends and even more incisive sophomore effort, Normal People, Sally Rooney has dazzled readers and become a global phenomenon.
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