Roommating by Meredith Schorr

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Roommating by Meredith Schorr is a heartwarming, soul-touching, multi-generational rom-com, where a shared living arrangement turns into more. Sabrina, a busy grad student, was matched with 72-year-old Marcia on a roommate app that brings younger people who need a place with lower rent together with older folks who have an extra room and need some help around the apartment. They become fast friends, but an unexpected third roommate is added when Marcia's estranged grandson, Adam, comes back into her life, needing a place to live as he figures out his future. Marcia wants to know Adam better, so she invites Adam to stay on the couch. Sabrina finds Adam attractive and sparks fly between these two, but it’s a bit crowded in the apartment and she worries that she’ll no longer be welcome once her lease is up. When Marcia becomes ill and is advised that maybe she should shed one of her roommates: living there turns into an awkward competition.

Ms Schorr wrote the ideal story for people who love books, NYC, and septuagenarians. I adored Marcia and her antics, and how she and Sabrina had such a lovely friendship. Sabrina and Adam are both in financial and employment distress which raises the emotional drama and housing worries. Both have parental issues and feel guilty about their grandmothers. Sabrina and Adam's relationship development was entertaining and perfectly bookish. Plus we get Rocket, the necessary adorable dog.

 

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