With the critical and popular success of her two millennial novels, Conversations with Friends (2017) and Normal People (2018), Irish author Sally Rooney has been compared to an impressive handful of literary predecessors. For example, her editor has “hailed” her as “Salinger for the Snapchat generation” (Clark, Stanford, Sucholdolski), most likely for her laserlike focus … Continue reading “‘Normal People’ Indeed!”: Anne Tyler, Sally Rooney, and the Narrative of Youthful Quirk