What are you Going Through

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / General / Nunez, Sigrid, Fiction / Nunez, Sigrid
On Shelf At: Traverwood Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Nunez, Sigrid	4-week checkout	Due 05-17-2024
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Nunez, Sigrid	4-week checkout	Due 05-22-2024

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Short and very enjoyable read... submitted by stellare on June 12, 2021, 4:12pm This is a short and very enjoyable read. It focuses on tough topics like grief and death but isn't overly dark or depressing. It has interesting discussions of friendship and relationships. I would recommend this, particularly if you enjoyed other books by Sigrid Nunez.

.. submitted by avandeusen on July 17, 2021, 10:34am This was my introduction to Sigrid Nunez and I couldn't have been happier to get to know her through this book. While the central themes are serious, the book is filled with lightness.