Quarantine Reads: Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sparked with utmost complexities, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney has dubbed the riveting yet intriguing adult phase struggles with such intricacies and vulnerabilities involved in the modern era through the most prevalent form of communication: conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Best friends, Bobby and Frances with couple, Nick and Melissa are entwined with their interests in arts, politics, and literature. They began to converse from the daily conundrums of being an adult to facing their existential crisis even with the age gaps and opposing radical views.  As their engagement deepens and intimacy unfolds, each of them is faced with their hidden issues: Bobby, Frances and their struggle to pursue their creative passions; Nick, Melissa and their effort to save their relationship on the verge of flailing dangers.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”6534″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Conversations with Friends story tells the complication of decision makings, the fickleness of young romance, relationship in its rocky forms, the beauty of pathos and the significance of friendship at the age where adulting has become increasingly difficult to dwell and process with. 

Sally Rooney entertains the relevance of a simple tete’-a-tete’ because it comes naturally; if not almost spontaneously. She weaved the difficulties of expressing perspectives and dealing with arguments just distinctively right off the point without dismissing ideas and opinions. Readers will get hooked in the conversations of the protagonists because it opens them to a whole new level of reality that life so perfect can still be disrupted and inadequate. Rooney came up in this contemporary read the ideal picture of what the millennial adult problems consist of: made of milieu of trivialities to significant pressing matters of economic, socio-political and mental issues. The characters attempt to dissect the uniqueness of human’s conflicting point of views while forging through the streams of their challenging personalities. The most interesting part of reading Conversations with Friends is how the characters discover the disarray of their perfectly balanced life that is antithesis much to their expectations. More importantly, how these characters try to put the fragments of their damaged affairs back together and become better from learning the mistakes that the world throws at them.  [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When you’re in the mood for something light relevant read with lessons to learn from, take a peek of what Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney is in store for you. No doubt that Rooney received the award of Young Writer of the Year (2017) from Sunday Times. Promise, you won’t regret it.  [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]