Description WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A beautiful book ...
Nunez lives in New York City..
She has been the recipient of several awards, including a Whiting Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship.
She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag .
About the author Sigrid Nunez is the author of the novels Salvation City , The Last of Her Kind , A Feather on the Breath of God , and For Rouenna , among others.
Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.
But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them.
Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog\'s care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling.
While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time.
Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building.
When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best Friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love." --Wall Street Journal "A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory...
Nunez has a wry, withering wit." --NPR "Dry, allusive and charming...the comedy here writes itself." The New York Times A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.
Description WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A beautiful book ..
