![]() Lower-middle-class Connell lives way across town with his unwed mother, who had him in her teens and works as a cleaning woman for the Sheridans. ![]() ![]() Both are star students, but Marianne is an outcast raised in material wealth and emotional poverty by her widowed mother, a lawyer who apparently deems aggressive behavior from men - including her abusive late husband and nasty son - acceptable. Marianne Sheridan and Connell Waldron meet as teens in County Sligo, Ireland. Although hailed as a voice of millennials, Rooney offers plenty to appeal to readers across genders and generations. Normal People is a compulsive, psychologically astute will-they-or-won't-they love story involving two of the most sympathetic people you're liable to meet between covers. ![]() I'm happy to report that Rooney's novels are exciting hand-held devices - new books that bring a 21st century perspective on insecurity to the coming-of-age narrative. At 28, the Trinity College Dublin graduate has published two novels, Conversations with Friends (2017) and Normal People, both to the sort of excitement that more typically greets new hand-held electronic devices. Such heaps of praise have piled up for Irish writer Sally Rooney, there's a danger of suffocation from avalanching expectations. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Normal People Author Sally Rooney ![]()
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