They continue to circle around each other, sometimes together and sometimes with other people and Rooney seamlessly and skillfully alternates their points of view as they grow up and work out what it means to be healthy, what it means to be normal, and what it means to be in love.
When they both wind up at Trinity the dynamic is reversed and Marianne finds that her social class and intelligence allow her to fit right in while Connell struggles for his footing. Connell keeps his relationship with her a secret she knows this and accepts it, thinks it's what she deserves. Connell's mother works as a cleaner in Marianne's house, if the social dynamic were not otherwise clear. Connell is a cool kid, a footballer, and Marianne is a social outcast, a wealthy girl in a working class town and a nerd to boot. Connell and Marianne start sleeping together in secondary school.
Rain silver as loose change in the glare of traffic.Īnyway. Raincoats glistening in the undersea color of street lamps. One of my many passages I underlined in the book:ĭublin is extraordinarily beautiful to in wet weather, the way grey stone darkens to black, and rain moves over the grass and whispers on slick roof tiles. I typically say "I love Ireland so much it hurts" and reading a novel set there in a recognizable era is a treat. I lived in Dublin in 1995 and anyone who knows me knows the country is dear to my heart. It's set between their hometown of Carricklea and Dublin where the two attend Trinity College. Normal People is about the romantic relationship between two Irish young people, Connell and Marianne, in 2010s Ireland. So much angst! I loved the book though and in the end I think it was one of the actors that ruined the show for me. I didn't really like the show though I did (hate)watch the whole thing. Anyway that's when I watched it, my second pandemic Sunday-night series, something to watch while my husband had his D&D game. I waited kind of a long time to read Normal People, but not before watching the Hulu series that I think came on in early 2020.
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