"Every day I wonder why my life has turned out this way," a millionaire novelist named Alice writes to her friend Eileen in "Beautiful World, Where Are You," out from Farrar, Straus & Giroux on Sept. 7. "I never advertised myself as a psychologically robust person, capable of withstanding extensive public inquiries into my personality and upbringing."
Neither did the novel's author, Sally Rooney. "This sounds terrible, but I'm trying not to have a meltdown about doing more publicity," she said during a video interview in July from a hotel room in Dublin. She'd taken the train in that morning from Castlebar, a town on the other side of Ireland where she lives with her husband, John Prasifka.
Neither did the novel's author, Sally Rooney. "This sounds terrible, but I'm trying not to have a meltdown about doing more publicity," she said during a video interview in July from a hotel room in Dublin. She'd taken the train in that morning from Castlebar, a town on the other side of Ireland where she lives with her husband, John Prasifka.