Intermezzo by Sally Rooney: book review
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney Overview: Ivan and Peter are brothers, but not the close kind of brothers. Between the decade of age gap and the fact that their personalities dance at two ends of the extreme, it would've been hard for them to deeply bond. But when their dad dies, the boys suddenly have a life altering common reality. Peter is a lawyer in Dublin balancing his deep emotional affair with his ex-girlfriend, Sylvia, and his very physically motivated affair with a girl his brother's age. Ivan, on the other hand, is a chess genius coming out the other side of a dark spiral down the incel side of the internet. When he meets Margaret at an exhibition chess game, his romantic luck turns around. Margaret is thirty-six to Ivan's twenty-two and is still technically married. The brother's messy romantic luck and their grief send them on intersecting paths that might finally force them to come together. Overall: 4 Characters: 4 I like everyone in the novel. They're a