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Sally Rooney and Kishani Widyaratna: Normal People

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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Relationships of the Future?

I'm interested in the slippages between the language that we use and what it actually describes. I maybe in a cultural moment where certainties around relationship forms have deteriorated slightly. It also feels like there is this concept of normalcy that runs through the novel, and within the psychologies of marianne o'connell. And i feel like there's like asn interesting play within the novel and what the concept of normal isn't almost just quashing it entirely.

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