Intermezzo

Intermezzo: A Novel by Sally Rooney

The smooth voice of the audiobook narration does a great job of putting you to sleep. It is hard to stay focussed. There is a chess player. A father recently died. Two brothers are supposedly mourning the death of their father, but all they seem to pay attention to is the body of their girlfriends. The brothers are a decade apart in age, and their significant others are closer to the age of the other brother. This leads to fights. One brother had his girlfriend dump him after he got in a wreck. They reconcile and decide that he can see her and the new one. The brothers have a holiday together. The central characters are men, but it feels that they are more pawns for the action of the women.