The death, the dog, and the writer.Īlthough The Friend is a work of fiction, Nunez-a writer-in-residence at CAS- told Literary Hub “much of it is autobiographical, and I feel there’s not a great amount of distance between the writer and the narrator.” The New York Times, NPR, Vogue, and BuzzFeed named it a best book of 2018.
It is a journey through the legacy of suicide, the bond between owner and pet, the life of a writer, and the complexity and consequences of a person’s flaws. The novel is the story of how she learns to live with each. When a writer’s friend-once her writing professor, briefly her lover, and then her companion-takes his own life, he leaves her with memories, questions, sorrow, and a 180-pound harlequin Great Dane, Apollo.
Sigrid Nunez’s National Book Award–winning novel, The Friend, is an exploration of grief, and of recovery.
By Andrew Thurston | Photo by Gandee Vasan/Getty ImagesĪt the beginning there’s a death.
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