Normal People

Critics call Sally Rooney “the Salinger of the millennial generation.”

The novel “Normal People” has already made it onto the Booker Prize longlist, and the rights for a screen adaptation were bought by Hulu and the BBC.

“Normal People” is the story of how one person affects another person’s life—and how hard it is for us to talk about our feelings. It’s a story of real love, even if it is extremely complicated. Connell Waldron and Marianne Sheridan study at the same school and even in the same class, but they hardly talk—hard to imagine two more different people. At school, Connell is the soul of any group, one of the most popular guys, while Marianne is a closed-off loner who maintains relationships mostly only with books. In real life, everything is different: she comes from a very wealthy family, and he is from a poor one; his mother is a cleaner at the Sheridan mansion… One day they still collide—on Marianne’s kitchen, when Connell drops by to pick up his mother. This brief, awkward, yet charged conversation forever changes their lives.