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&ldquo\;Intermezzo&rdquo\; by Sally Rooney
\n&ldquo\;Aside fr om the fact that they are brothers\, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have li ttle in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties\, successful\, co mpetent\, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's d eath\, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relat ionships with two very different women\, his enduring first love\, Sylvia\ , and Naomi\, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself a s socially awkward\, a loner\, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. N ow\, in the early weeks of his bereavement\, Ivan meets Margaret\, an olde r woman emerging from her own turbulent past\, and their lives become rapi dly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people th ey love\, this is a new interlude\, a period of desire\, despair\, and pos sibility\; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.&rdquo\; - From the library catalog.
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