What Are You Going Through: A Novel

"This book feels sort of like a sequel to The Friend, Sigrid Nunez’s novel about a writer who inherits a dog after a friend dies by suicide. In What Are You Going Through, the narrator, a writer and teacher, allows everyone she encounters to tell their own stories – even a cat she meets at an Airbnb. Unmarried and childless, the narrator muses about growing older, having never met “the one.” She brilliantly describes one friend’s fading beauty and her ex’s pomposity and despair. This novel is smart, witty, empathetic and so relatable – offering observations about companionship, connection and the powerful act of listening."