Cant help but feel drawn to yet another Sally Rooney book. There is just something so appealing about her writing, about her storytelling, that wont let me take my eyes off the pages.

Rooney has an ability to make the pages a mirror and make younger readers feel as if they were naked, in front of their own reflection. We recognize ourselves in the events, in the thoughts, in the words spoken and unspoken, even in the love scenes, to the point where the characters become us, our lives, our complications. She doesn't write extraordinary novels, she doesn't write about extraordinary events. Don't expect plot twists. What characterizes them, instead, and what very often keeps us glued to the pages, is the absolute, complete normality, the same one that we happen to experience every day and the one that Sally decides to paint in a picture of dialogues and flows of words that take us straight to our thoughts, to our similar reflections, to our similar doubts. Sally has a very characteristic writing and her books often share plot patterns, but with 'Beautiful World, Where Are You' she ultimately shows her growth and maturity. Her characters seem to have finally found peace and the suspense that would usually surround their outcome is completely cleared out. Similar to her previous works, both protagonists, Alice and Eileen, are busy with a love they cannot define, they're the main characters of a historical period that resembles a limbo, that moment before the precipice. Both are symbols of a generation already aware of the downfall, of the destruction, ahead of us and yet incapable of changing its course. So when they ask themselves where this beautiful world might even be, it comes as a surprise that Sally is finally able to give them an answer: perhaps it's nowhere, or perhaps it's right here, in the present and passing moment and in the happiness of a life that, ultimately, continues to flow.