![]() ![]() The characters are ordinary and not particularly likeable, the plot doesn’t lead up to any big event, there is no climax and the romance is not glamorised. Much like Normal People, what’s captivating about Beautiful World, Where Are You is how Rooney successfully writes about the mundanity of the everyday. While the lengthy emails appear strange and old-fashioned at first, it’s where they discuss complex ideas from sexuality to climate change and identity, all the while giving the reader an insightful view into how Rooney responded to the realities of her own literary success. Across intermittent chapters, she writes to Eileen via email. The narrative is, in part, autobiographical - Alice is a successful novelist suffering from depression who has written two critically acclaimed novels and is struggling to write the third. It’s clear that the author has made no conscious effort to distinguish herself from the protagonist. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney ![]()
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