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The Novel I Needed to Read Twice Before I Could Leave It
I finished Normal People at around midnight on a Tuesday and lay awake for an hour thinking about Connell and Marianne and all the things they never quite managed to say. By Wednesday morning I had turned back to page one. Sally Rooney writes about the gap between what two people feel and what they actually say in a way that makes ordinary conversation feel like a failure of nerve on every page.


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266 Pages
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2 Reads Same Week

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She was not afraid of receiving things. She found life very beautiful still.


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Reading Normal People
4 Restrained setup
5 Full arrival
5 Most honest
4 Painful

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Currently recommending this to anyone who asks for a novel about the difficulty of being known by someone you actually want to be known by.

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Did you read Normal People more than once?
Yes immediately or soon after the first read
Yes but not until much later
Once was enough for me
I have not read it yet