Friendship and Mortality in a Plague Year: Sigrid Nunez on What Are You Going Through

Subscribe on Podcasts | Spotify | SoundCloud | Author Sigrid Nunez, who won the National Book Award for 2018’s The Friend, joins Kate and Eric to talk about her new novel, What Are You Going Through, which focuses on the narrator’s close relationship to a friend with a terminal illness. The work revolves around witnessing […] The post Friendship and Mortality in a Plague Year: Sigrid Nunez on What Are You Going Through appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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