Beautiful World Where Are You by Sally Rooney
“I fell in love with Sally Rooney after reading her hit novels Normal People and Conversations With Friends. I started this book over the summer and finished it during Fashion Week this fall. I love the way Rooney conveys the various aspects of human nature—communication, how people react together, how they react alone, and the emotions that come with different stages of life. It also covers a lot of conversations around politics, religion, art, and inequality.
The basis of this book is anchored in friendship and love, following four people. However, most of the novel is centered on a long-distance friendship between two women who use email and written letters to share their lives. The book goes on to bring the characters together while you follow the evolution of their friendship and love lives, and it highlights the importance of differences as well as similarities in their relationships. I think it’s very relatable!”
Iasmin Reis
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Brain Damage by Freida McFadden
“A friend recommended the book to me, but I chose it because the cover caught my attention. After reading the prologue, I became even more interested because I realized the story explores both the ‘before’ and the ‘after.’ The author reveals everything along with the character, so you discover what happened as the story unfolds.”
