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An exquisitely moving story about grief,loveand familyΓÇöbut especially loveΓÇöfrom the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothersPeter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirtiesΓÇösuccessfulcompetentand apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their fatherΓÇÖs deathheΓÇÖs medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different womenΓÇöhis enduring first loveSylviaand Naomia college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkwarda lonerthe antithesis of his glib elder brother. Nowin the early weeks of his bereavementIvan meets Margaretan older woman emerging from her own turbulent pastand their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they lovethis is a new interludeΓÇöa period of desiredespairand possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.