What’s more, Rooney has been dubbed “Salinger for the Snapchat generation” and the “voice of the millennials,” which is a lot of labels. The brilliant coming-of-age novel-out last year in the UK, in April in the U.S.-had already received accolades, such as the Waterstones Book of the Year Award, and had been nominated for the Man Booker Prize. It feels appropriate to offer congratulations, since just two days prior, Rooney became the youngest recipient ever of the Costa Novel Award (formerly the Whitbread) for her second book, Normal People. We say hello and order lunch-a steak sandwich and fries for her, tomato soup for me. Hidden on the second floor of the Central Hotel, the bar is unassuming, the kind of place Dubliners know about and tourists miss entirely. When I arrive at the Library Bar, in Rooney’s adopted hometown of Dublin, the 28-year-old author is waiting for me in a low-slung reading chair, politely having chosen a spot next to a window and facing the entryway to avoid any possibility of us missing each other. About half an hour into our conversation, Sally Rooney and I begin talking about the end of the world as we know it.
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