24 February 2020
Sally Rooney doesn't come across as someone who spends a lot of time on Snapchat. There is no scene in her 2018 novel Normal People where her protagonists Marianne and Connell bond over the camera filter that turns your face into a dog. The characters in her debut, Conversations With Friends (2017), mostly communicate by text. Nevertheless, the label "Salinger for the Snapchat generation" - apparently dreamed up by an editor at Faber - surfaces in every article about the Irish author. Including this one.
