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The Friend
by

Sigrid Nunez

Jenny (Reading Envy)'s review

Nov 06, 2018

it was amazing

bookshelves: read2018, national-book-award-nominees

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez is a finalist for the National Book Award. I first heard about it from Nadine, a guest on Episode 129 of the Reading Envy Podcast. I enjoyed the themes of the novel - grief, friendship, dogs, writing - but more than that I appreciated the style, which felt like fiction as essay or autobiographical fiction, more musings than plot. My kind of read.

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