Beautiful World, Where Are You

Description

Beautiful World, Where Are You is a quietly powerful and intellectually rich novel that follows the entangled lives of four young adults navigating love, friendship, and purpose in a world that feels increasingly unstable.

At the center are Alice, a successful novelist recovering from a breakdown, and her best friend Eileen, a literary editor grappling with heartbreak and financial precarity. Their lives unfold in parallel—Alice begins a complicated romance with Felix, a warehouse worker she meets on a dating app, while Eileen reconnects with Simon, a childhood friend she’s loved for years but can’t seem to hold onto.

Through a series of deeply personal emails between Alice and Eileen, Rooney explores big questions about intimacy, art, privilege, and the future of civilization—all while immersing readers in the subtle, often contradictory emotions that shape modern relationships.