Emily Henry's Funny Story is a charming romance, but doesn't lean far enough into the fun of its pretend lovers plot.
“Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.” These words, penned by the great Nora Ephron, come from her autobiographical novel. But they also cut to the heart of the contemporary romantic comedy and the particular obstacles its leads tend to face.
And because the best romantic comedies soothe audiences even as they surprise them, Henry has done her own spins on the classic tropes of the genre. Her debut romance for adults, and arguably her best novel, is, which broke through with readers a few months into COVID lockdown. About two neighboring novelists who try to write in one another’s vein,works as a kind of authorial mission for Henry on how the literary and the generic can exist in blissful, sexy harmony.
When Peter unceremoniously dumps Daphne for his childhood best friend, classic pick-me girl Petra, our shy, friendless librarian moves in with the only other person she knows in town: Petra’s ex, a messy-haired sommelier who smells like weed and possibility. Unlike “TV handsome” Peter, the equally heartbroken Miles is “the kind that’s disarming enough that you don’t feel nervous talking to him… until–wham! Suddenly he’s smiling at you with his messy hair and impish smirk.
Miles is self-aware to boot, listening to Daphne describe the Cool Girl phenomenon only to crack, “I just realized I’m a cool, laid-back girl.” Though the book belongs to Daphne and is, in fact, narrated in her voice – first-person, present-tense, funny and intimate – the side characters income through especially strongly, especially Daphne’s mother, her single mom friend Ashleigh, and Miles’ quirky sister Julia.
This means no tingly slow dances at a sumptuous, excessively beige rehearsal dinner; no questions of who sleeps in the hotel bed, who in the bathtub, ; no blundering improvised telling of their meet-cute for their exes’ benefit. The titlemight suggest more hijinks than actually ensue, as the novel focuses its energy on shepherding two lovable, imperfect people having steamy interactions in between resolving their childhood traumas and reclaiming their Main Character Energy.
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