16 ratings • 4 reviews
16 ratings • 4 reviews
A sharply intelligent novel about two college students and the strange, unexpected connection they forge with a married couple. Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed, and darkly observant. A college student and aspiring writer, she devotes herself to a life of the mind--and to the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi, her best friend and comrade-in-arms. Lovers at school, the two young women now perform spoken-word poetry together in Dublin, where a journalist named Melissa spots their potential. Drawn into Melissa's orbit, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband. Private property, Frances believes, is a cultural evil--and Nick, a bored actor who never quite lived up to his potential, looks like patriarchy made flesh. But however amusing their flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy neither of them expect. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally even with Bobbi. Desperate to reconcile herself to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances's intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment. Written with gem-like precision and probing intelligence, Conversations With Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth."
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wow so good, where do i start?
i loved being in frances’s head and becoming a part of her world. so glad the novel was told from her point of view.
normal people may have gotten the hype but i definitely recommend checking out conversations with friends. a new fav of mine for sure.
not sure why i was surprised to find that this was a romance book. i’ve heard so many people talk about it and i was expecting something different.
a little too graphic for me, but kind of interesting enough to keep going. i kind of got too far into it to put it down. but would probably tell a friend not to read it.