Why writer Sally Rooney stopped tying up loose ends in ‘Conversations With Friends’
"Once I identified that impulse, and reasoned myself out of it, I wrote the final scene as it is now – and I felt the novel was finished," Rooney said.
Discussion questions for ‘Conversations with Friends’
Sally Rooney's “Conversations with Friends" is the September pick for our book club in partnership with the New York Times.
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