Normal People by Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney’s Normal People is a novel that has been buzzed about since it came out in 2018, and then there is the TV miniseries that aired in 2020 that, again, people seem to not be able to stop talking about. I came across Normal People the novel while I was browsing books to buy on Bookoutlet.ca and decided to give it a read, but I tempered my expectations because I find that heavily hyped books usually do not turn out as good as I hope. With Normal People, though, I was surprised to find myself totally engrossed by it. It is an interesting story about two flawed characters with emotional and behaviour issues. These characters often wish they were “normal people”, but Normal People has me ruminating on the concept of the “normal person”. Is there even such a thing? We all have our issues, which we mostly keep hidden from other people, so maybe we all are “normal people”?
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