Conversations with Friends

I had originally typecast Sally Rooney into a particular brand of light bestseller fiction for Karens. I feel like this book does fit into that genre, but there is definite perspicacity and depth to the observational skill of her writing and its ability to communicate layered depths in her protagonist. There were parts that didn't sit comfortably, particularly the way the power dynamics between the male and female characters where left in a dangerously ambivalent space. I think the story would have benefited from including perspective of the older male character or an older female character.
I wanted the characters to make better choices and others to face some culpability.
No-one, however, can deny the utterly original voice with which Rooney writes, and the engaging compulsive readability of her writing.