The Friend

Name: The Friend
Author: Sigrid Nunez

by Sigrid Nunez

Novel about widow and grieving friend forming unlikely bond over shared loss

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Sigrid Nunez

American novelist whose The Friend, a novel about a woman who inherits her dead mentor's Great Dane, won the National Book Award in 2018. Her quiet, essayistic fiction is celebrated for its intelligence and emotional depth. She is one of the most admired literary novelists of her generation.

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