The Content Reader

I think I must be one of the last to read Sally Rooney. I don't know why I did not read anything by her earlier, especially since she seems to get raving reviews from everyone. I can only agree.  "Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d 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 young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?" I did like this book, although I almost gave up from the beginning. Rooney mixes chapters with an omniscient narrator w...