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Going Up

Sally Rooney having already become the toast of the hip-lit gang in Ireland, Rooney’s fiction is becoming a New York status symbol. According to one US website, in an article titled ‘Is Carrying a Sally Rooney Book the New Instagram Status symbol?’, readers are Instagramming Rooney’s latest novel Normal People (just published in the US) to show that they are reading and loving it, with model Emily Ratajkowski telling her 22.4 ...