Why am I passionate about this?
As a 34-year-old memoirist, one of the most frequent questions I get about my genre, delivered with both curiosity and disdain, is: âWhy?â After all, why? What could I, the life experience and literary equivalent of a pollywog, have to share about my journeyâor, gasp, what Iâve LEARNED? The fun thing is, as someone who once broke my parentsâ computer by using dial-up internet to download Napster, Iâm used to disappointing people. Even more fun: as a millennial memoirist, I donât believe in writing books that will tell people what Iâve learned. I hope my writing shows, through both merit and content, that I have indeed learned something.
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Why did Jenna love this book?
All hail the queen. Sally Rooney makes it look easy, with just the right amount of Irish, nothing-is-easy-you-insufferable-wanker on the side. This book has it all: awkward yet undeniably hot sexual tension! Arguments! Cool names! A house that is bigger than yours!
And within Rooneyâs stupidly gorgeous prose, we find ourselves not only yelling âEXACTLY!â out loud, many times, to an empty room but answering the bookâs central question: right here. As long as we have a good book, that beautiful world is right here.
2 authors picked Beautiful World, Where Are You as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
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Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends.
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if heâd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.
Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still youngâbut life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they getâŚ