Mr Salary By Salley Rooney - Book Review

Mr Salary by Sally Rooney is a little book about a flawed relationship, leaving the reader with lots of guessing and interpretation.

Sukie, a woman in her twenties, returns to Dublin when her father falls ill. Being back reminds her of the time she spent with Nathan, a man who is more than a decade older than her. He had given her a home when no one else was there for her. Paid for everything that raised a lot of questions among everyone around them. They shared a relationship that even they couldn't define, a complicated one. After visiting her father, Sukie goes to Nathan’s place, and the book ends on an open note as they have a conversation that tries, in some way, to evaluate where they stand in terms of their bond.

I picked it up randomly after seeing that some book club online was reading it and mentioned it's just 22 pages long. I'm not a fan of Rooney, and even this book wasn’t anything extraordinary to me. I couldn't make out what she wanted to convey through this book.

Her writing style is certainly distinct, but I believe it's not for me. This book was my attempt to like Rooney and it failed.

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