In her fourth novel, “Intermezzo,” Irish author Sally Rooney paints a picture of grief not fully internalized.

Sally Rooney returns to lit-fic lovers' bookshelves with her fourth book, "Intermezzo," a intimate, dizzying dance of two grieving brothers.

Seven years into her writing career, a new book by Sally Rooney is all but guaranteed to be an event. Rooney, an Irish novelist, has been hailed as a voice of the millennial generation, a writer who can marshal the economic uncertainty and emotional precarity that haunt young adults into moving,

Rooney's fourth novel is a story about learning to accept loss. And though it has its share of grief and strife, it's happier and less disturbing than Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You.

The Irish author's fourth book swaps out the female protagonist for two grieving brothers.