BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU (Sally Rooney) - October 11/21

 I basically enjoyed this but it's just so long and unfocused. Rooney kind of rambles and offers up several very long paragraphs that aren't super easy to get through. But the characters are well defined and there were definitely quite a few riveting stretches. But this reads like a book that the author refused to edit down. **1/2 out of ****