An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.nnAside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.nnPeter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirtiesu2014successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their fatheru2019s death, heu2019s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different womenu2014his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.nnIvan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.nnFor two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interludeu2014a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
