What Are You Going Through: A Novel

What Are You Going Through: A Novel

Taschenbuch
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Beschreibung

The New York Times -bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship.

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.

In What Are You Going Through, Nunez brings wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times. A surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship, her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now.
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Like her first book, "What you are going through" is a smart, haunting little book with an experimental feel that in all its wisdom and humor is not easy to stomach. The narrator meets various people in her life; all of them have the urge to talk about themselves. She is a listener until one of them makes an extraordinary request. This is a brain twister slapping us with the fact that yes, we are all going to die. Playing on themes similar to her bestseller The Friend, Nunez gives us a first-person narrator who visits a friend with terminal cancer. It's a book about human connection, a story about empathy and relationships in our times. Nunez draws the reader in because she gets life, in all it's absurd realities and misfortunes. Conversational in tone, which gives it a personal touch. She could be speaking to any of us, anywhere.

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