Connell and Marianne are teenagers in Ireland when we first meet them. Connell is popular and cool, Marianne, friendless and withdrawn. They connect, however, quietly, unbeknownst to their peers. The relationship, like this novel, is intense, as we follow them, their ups and downs through their college years where their roles are reversed. They change, break up, get back together, never quite boyfriend and girlfriend. Both end up depressed and isolated at times. Both misunderstand and misinterpret each others' words, pauses, and motives. Both love yet break each other's hearts. Both change the other. It's an intense, interesting, complicated relationship, worth the effort to read.
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