Normal People By Sally Rooney

Normal People cemented Sally Rooney’s status as a leading voice in millennial literary fiction. The novel focuses intimately on the on-again, off-again relationship between Connell Waldron, the popular, working-class athlete, and Marianne Sheridan, the wealthy, intelligent outcast. Their bond is defined by an extraordinary intellectual connection and a consistent inability to communicate their true feelings, often leaving them cycling between intimacy and painful distance.