The new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of THE FRIEND
''When I open one of Sigrid Nunez''s novels, I almost always know immediately: This is where I want to be'' NEW YORK TIMES
''I just adore Sigrid Nunez'' PAULA HAWKINS
Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez''s ninth novel. The Vulnerables completes a meditation on our contemporary era that Nunez began with The Friend and continued with What Are You Going Through. A solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past.
Humour, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others, who here include an adrift member of Gen Z and a spirited parrot named Eureka. The Vulnerables reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open
