No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not.

I didn't have the best time with Normal People in the beginning, with its odd way the prose and dialogues were written. But about 30% I got the hang of the story and Marianne and Connell.

Sally Rooney wrote an impeccably disturbing, troublesome characters with Marianne and Conell, and yet somehow she managed to make them still grounded, with whom readers can resonate themselves one way or another.

Normal People is a subtle coming of age character study of two young people, clueless as to where and how they would navigate their future and love affairs. It's angsty, full of heated sexual desires, infatuation, loneliness, anxieties, violently dysfunctional family dynamics, codependent relationships... all the good stuff you probably want for a cozy Friday evening read LOL.

And that ending, woah.

Spoiler

So sudden and abrupt I thought I was missing a couple of pages.