Three months ago, my husband, son, and I get breakthrough cases of COVID. With little energy to do anything else, I begin reading Beautiful World, Where Are You, the new Sally Rooney novel, that follows two friends - their lives and also their letters to each other. My favorite part of the novel is these letters - meandering, thoughtful, musings about philosophy and religion and climate change but also pockets of feeling, moments of vulnerability, putting to words the truths about themselves they hadn’t known until they’d given them language, until they decided to do the work of plucking them out of their hearts and minds and wrestling them onto paper. I am struck by their friendship, their devotion to each other, and during one of those first couple feverish nights of COVID, I cannot sleep, I am thinking about this book, and I sob to my husband, “I do not have any friends.”
Ahhhh yes. YES!
Ohmygosh I so hear you.
I loved this.
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