Conversations with Friends
By Sally Rooney
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Sally Rooney's 2017 debut novel follows Frances, a cool-headed twenty-one-year-old student in Dublin, and her best friend and former girlfriend, Bobbi, who perform spoken-word poetry together. At one of their readings they meet Melissa, an older writer and photographer, and are drawn into her world and her marriage to Nick, an actor. As Frances and Nick begin a flirtation that turns into an affair, the novel explores friendship, desire and how hard it is to say what one means.