At the cusp of 40, university gardener May Attaway in Rules for Visiting frets that she has a dearth of friends. Although she doesn’t feel actively unhappy about being single, socially adrift and living with her father, she launches a many-pronged inquiry into the nature of friendship. Her quest doesn’t seem to get her anywhere until life itself brings her an answer. I found this 2019 novel about an introvert by Jessica Francis Kane intriguing, though I’m not sure the lesson I took away was what the author intended.
Friends: Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane
How do you nurture friendships if you don’t feel that comes naturally to you? That’s the challenge a 40-year-old botanist takes on in Rules for Visiting, our March 2024 Introvert Book Club selection.
