Sigrid Nunez on Grief and Friendship

The premise sounds almost slapstick-“cat person sneaks enormous dog into New York apartment that doesn’t allow them”-unless you know that for the narrator, the dog is a tragic inheritance: the devoted pet of a dear friend who has just taken his own life. In the throes of grief, under threat of eviction, and from the wise and wonderful pen of Sigrid Nunez, unfurls The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award for fiction. Admired for her quiet wit, poignant prose, and sharp powers of observation, Nunez will be in conversation with Nena Torres, Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
This program was recorded on April 27, 2019.
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Very interesting interview. I would like to read her books. Wish they were in the little public library here instead of 15 books by Daphne Demaurier. A lot of us wrestle with the suicide theme, i hope she avoids the risk, as well as everyone. I probably am too stupid to read her books or understand, but she certainly is a very interesting and very good writer!

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I can't listen more, but I'm at that stage...feeling separate from the human race

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