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Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
3.75

As a Sally Rooney lover, this book has always been the least special to me (controversially). I wanted to revisit it after a few years and i still find myself confused and turned around by the premise of adultery, though I recognize that many elements of the book comment on this issue. 

I find Frances to be a passive (but so real) and unreliable narrator, who is helpless to make change in her own life. Different from other Rooney books, I find it less telling about the human experience and class consciousness and more focused on characterization, but she is a difficult character for me to connect to. 

That being said, i too am a passive, anxious, and spiritually and emotionally confused 21 year old, and so Frances is still so special to me. I get it.