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Normal People: One million copies sold

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The issue I encounter is that the problems and traumas these characters goes through are too real for me, and because of that I want them to get past them in a healthy way. No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not. I just could not stand reading about on-off relationship of these young damaged adults while such important matters like domestic abuse, depression and mental health in general were hugely overlooked. I know I'm a little late to the Sally Rooney party, as I've picked this up looooong after the show started and finished. And reminded about how life is a series of relationships, and how a few of them help shape who we are and how we live our lives.

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Lorraine sweeps the line of hairpins into the palm of her hand, closes her fist around them and pockets them.Real relationships are forever evolving, eternally incomplete, and so it figures that a novel about relationships will be too. Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently. I can see how that isn't for everyone, but I found it really easy to follow and loved it so much I bought all of her other books too. Actually even though after all the insight we have, I don't think I understand their emotions of intense longing, complete depression, ability to switch on-and-off in relationships which are based on some magical other-worldly connections.

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The novel also shows how our identity, self-esteem and who we become as adults are bound to our upbringing – indefinitely. Connell unpeels the foil from the top of a bottle as Jamie leans over and says something to Marianne.The author doesn't let Marianne learn that her value is inherent, independent of a man, she just says 'you felt you didn't have value because everyone said so, but now you do because this man says so' and that's a concerning dynamic. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2018, as well as the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Rathbones Folio Prize in 2019. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers and we don’t sell your information to others. I love how they’re always gravitating back to each other but I wish they’d just give into vulnerability, but I’d def recommend to a friend nonetheless.

Normal People: One million copies sold by Sally Rooney

Also the long rambling descriptions of making yourself a cup of tea and drinking sessions in colleges and wandering the supermarket aisles are probably what lets you peak into life in another world. While most of Marianne's relationships have been with people who degraded her and gave her no value, it ends with a relationship with someone who gives her value and praise and she gives him power over her because of that. Confident and uncluttered, it conveys an immediacy and ingenuousness that drew me in and held me from beginning to end, which came too soon. Sally Rooney always hits the nail on the head when writing characters- they're nuanced and well-rounded and actually interesting, which is hard to find.

It’s as if an impossibly heavy lid has been lifted off his emotional life and suddenly he can breathe fresh air. The New Yorker Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 and Winner of Specsavers National Book Awards International Author of the Year When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. question seems to him to contain so much: not just the forensic attentiveness to his silences that allows her to ask in the first place, but a desire for total communication, a sense that anything unsaid is an unwelcome interruption between them. Sydney Morning Herald 'What makes Rooney's books so captivating and impossible to put down is the way she crafts characters and dialogue-at times, the conversations in her books can seem so real that you almost feel like you're eavesdropping on something you shouldn't be.

Normal People: One million copies sold : Rooney, Sally Normal People: One million copies sold : Rooney, Sally

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Vogue Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In Marianne I recognize a young woman trying to carve out a life for herself in spite of a lifetime of emotional, psychological and physical abuse. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the London Review of Books and elsewhere.

If by "feminist book" one just means "a book with well-written female characters who are complex and different and who have sex and it's normal and they as characters have feminist views" then sure, go ahead.

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