EAN: 9780593329009

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY NPR PEOPLE AND O THE OPRAH MAGAZINEA NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS TOP BOOK OF 2020NATIONAL BESTSELLERAs good as The Friend if not better. The New York Times Impossible to put down . . . leavened with wit and tenderness. People I was dazed by the novel s grace. The New YorkerThe 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 companionshipA 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 anaudience 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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