May Book Chat: Intermezzo

We will be doing this Book Chat online.
Hope to see you all!

For our May Book Chat we will be reading Intermezzo by Sally Rooney: https://abc.nl/book-details/intermezzo/@9780571365487

About the book:

From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable.

But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother.

Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude - a period of desire, despair and possibility - a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude―a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

Happy reading!

(I'll be including trigger warnings from now on, to make sure our book club is a safe and fun space for everyone. Reader-supplied content/trigger warnings for this book can be found here: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1c8879fe-1017-41dd-830f-69eb33ca34b6/content_warnings)