It is a lonely novel: rigorous and stark, so elegant. Perhaps the best tag for her work is “essay novel”: that allows one to do what Javier Marias calls “literary thinking.” And there’s a wonderfully non-Pavlovian answer to the treat question: sometimes you can just have the whiskey…. Quietly brilliant and darkly funny, Nunez's latest novel finds her on familiar turf with an aggressively unsentimental interrogation of grief, writing, and the human-canine bond. But Sigrid is fascinated by establishing a reality that is entirely made-up (“not a single friend angry!”), yet also documentary in nature. Ratings & Reviews think Rate this book Friends & Following Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book Filters questions Cant find what youre looking for Get help and learn more about the design. The question of genre is tossed around:”fictional memoir” perhaps, which gets confused (insultingly, Tara thinks!) with auto-fiction. The narrator is a writer whose great and good friend of thirty years (a man whod once been her mentor) has committed suicide. She thinks her upbringing with immigrant parents who felt adrift from their homeland and her own “failure” as a dancer (recounted in her 1995 debut novel, A Feather on the Breath of God ) are the ferment from which her vocation as a writer arose. Because life is defined by grief and mourning, so too are my novels, says Nunez. The conversation ranges widely and then plunges into depths.
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