Normal People by Sally RooneyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Hooter: If the facebook status "It's complicated" was a book
Raw, painful with a silver lining - are they truly normal people? The protagonists Connell and Marianne literally orbit around each other as life happens around them. From Connell's mom working as a cleaner at Marianne's house - he being popular in school and she the misfit to college having them swap those roles. Whilst you could call them friends with benefits by definition, their relationship is formed at an intellectual and mental level and the physical is a distraction. As they slip in and out of relationships with others, they navigate their own relationship around what life throws at them.
Being teenage love, there is clearly a lot of physical satiation at play that gets thrown around the other oddities life throws at them but there is a bittersweet innocence of those romances beyond the superficial that tugs at the reader. Wish life was like the book as it fast forwards to consequential and pivotal moments in their life skipping the mundane in between.
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