![]() Through these conversations, Frances, Bobbi, and their new friends consider the life of the artist, matters of class, relationships, morality, and more - all with a tone that feels realistic, familiar, and fresh at the same time. Told from Frances’s point of view, much of the story unfolds in conversations between the characters in the myriad ways we communicate today - IRL, over text, over email, written letters, and in our heads, to no one in particular. ![]() The novel follows two female college-aged friends and former lovers Frances and Bobbi as their lives entangle with those of an alluring older couple. It came to me by word of mouth, something that doesn’t happen so often these days. Irish author Sally Rooney’s debut, Conversations with Friends, was my favorite book of 2017 (that I didn’t actually read until earlier this year). ![]()
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