Sally Rooney's book has been called both. I think it's more interested in how class and communication patterns shape who we can be with than in the romance itself. What do you think the book is actually about?
Character study. Rooney is interested in how people perform identity in relationships. The romance is the pressure cooker, not the subject.
It's a love story about two people who are fundamentally bad at being together but can't stop. The class element is real but secondary.
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