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The Book Show #1679 - Sigrid Nunez

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published September 22, 2020 at 3:00 PM EDT
Book cover for "What Are You Going Through"

Sigrid Nunez’s first book since “The Friend,” winner of the National Book Award, looks back to a precarious, pre-pandemic world. "What You Are Going Through" is a story of death and companionship, loneliness and obligation and as she writes: “Messy life. Unfair life. Life that must be dealt with.” 
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