SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

Sharp, funny, thought-provoking . . . a really great portrait of two young women as theyre figuring out how to be adults.Celeste Ng,Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast

The dialogue is superb, as are the insights about communicating in the age of electronic devices. Rooney has a magical ability to write scenes of such verisimilitude that even when little happens theyre suspenseful.Curtis Sittenfeld,The Week

Rooney has the gift of imbuing everyday life with a sense of high stakes . . . a novel of delicious frictions.New York

A writer of rare confidence, with a lucid, exacting style . . . One wonderful aspect of Rooneys consistently wonderful novel is the fierce clarity with which she examines the self-delusion that so often festers alongside presumed self-knowledge. . . . But Rooneys natural power is as a psychological portraitist. She is acute and sophisticated about the workings of innocence; the protagonist of this novel about growing up has no idea just how much of it she has left to do.Alexandra Schwartz,The New Yorker

This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear Im not alone.Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram)