Bibliograph

What are you going through, a novel, Sigrid Nunez

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Label

What are you going through, a novel, Sigrid Nunez

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

What are you going through

Medium

large print

Responsibility statement

Sigrid Nunez

Sub title

a novel

Summary

A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own. A novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times

Target audience

adult

Classification