Sally Rooney’s books are getting the boot in the UK
The literary world just got a lot more complicated thanks to a new stance on royalties.
So, Sally Rooney decided that her royalties should go to a group that the UK government has officially labeled a bit too spicy. The result? You literally cannot buy her books in the country anymore.
It is one thing to have principles, but it is another to effectively ban yourself from the biggest English-language market on the planet. It turns out that when you take a side that the local authorities consider problematic, the shelves tend to clear out pretty fast.
Somehow, a novelist managing to get herself canceled by an entire nation feels like the most Sally Rooney thing to happen in years.
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