![]() What Are You Going Through appears to be the next chapter in the character’s life. After experimenting with literary forms over the next two decades (the novel Mitz was a mock biography of Virginia Woolf’s pet marmoset she also wrote a memoir of her 1970s friendship with Susan Sontag ’93HON), Nunez returned to the unnamed narrator in The Friend, a touching examination of grief that won the 2018 National Book Award. She first earned acclaim with her 1995 debut, the autobiographical novel A Feather on the Breath of God, narrated by an unnamed mixed-race immigrant girl growing up in a Brooklyn housing project in the 1950s and ’60s. ![]() ![]() But readers should not be fooled by the straightforward tone Nunez’s seventh novel is stunningly complex, a nuanced, layered look at aging, friendship, love, and death.įans of Nunez will find both the themes and the voice familiar. Like much of her prose, the line is simple and direct. ![]() “I went to hear a man give a talk,” writes Sigrid Nunez ’72BC, ’75SOA in the opening sentence of her new novel, What Are You Going Through. ![]()
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