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Normal People

Comparing Sally Rooney's literary masterpiece to its Hulu show.

By Suze KayPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
Normal People
Photo by Denver Saldanha on Unsplash

Against rolling Irish hills and freshly-washed linens, Marianne and Connell touch and love and part and chase and fail. Their minds and bodies are ravenous, their souls and tongues damaged. They leave me wanting more.

The show made me horny.

The book made me want to be a better person.

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Suze Kay

Pastry chef by day, insomniac writer by night.

Find here: stories that creep up on you, poems to stumble over, and the weird words I hold them in.

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    Written by Suze Kay