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What Are You Going Through
A Novel
Author: Sigrid Nunez
Narrator: Hillary Huber
Unabridged: 5 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Published: 09/08/2020
Category: Fiction - Lgbt - Friendship
Synopsis
The 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 companionship.
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, the friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of them 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 mostly as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, and she is drawn into an intense and transformative experience of her own.
With her widely acclaimed novel The Friend, Sigrid Nunez was hailed for her "confident and direct style" (The New York Times), her "wry, withering wit" (NPR), and "world of insight into death, grief, art, and love" (The Wall Street Journal). Readers rejoiced in her ability to capture the essence of grief and friendship. With What Are You Going Through, Nunez brings that same warm wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times. In a surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship, Nunez offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now.
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, the friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of them 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 mostly as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, and she is drawn into an intense and transformative experience of her own.
With her widely acclaimed novel The Friend, Sigrid Nunez was hailed for her "confident and direct style" (The New York Times), her "wry, withering wit" (NPR), and "world of insight into death, grief, art, and love" (The Wall Street Journal). Readers rejoiced in her ability to capture the essence of grief and friendship. With What Are You Going Through, Nunez brings that same warm wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times. In a surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship, Nunez offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now.