I f***king hate GR, once again, for not having half star rating, ughh.
So this is more like 4.5 stars...

My first Rooney and how mesmerized I am!

Two friends and their love interests..
two friends talking over emails about everything..
from personal life to civilization
from love to sex
from faith to politics
from betrayal to belonging...

That sums up Beautiful World Where Are You!
And that's why it is probably not for every reader.
Not just because of the story but because of the way it is written.. slow, in-depth, and precise, making you look at your core and feel those emotions, just so that you can say how much you could relate to it.

Because at the core, it is about friendship. And trust it to remind you of your friends.. the ones who are still with you and the ones who were left behind.

“Presumably, remembered suffering never feels as bad as present suffering, even if it was really a lot worse - we can't remember how much worse it was, because remembering is weaker than experiencing.”

When you finish it.. you feel whole, in the same way, you feel after having a long conversation with a life-long friend over coffee. It can feel satisfying and it can be awkward at the same time.

That's why the experience of reading this book, I call it 'a conversation over coffee'.