The Vulnerables: A Novel

The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through brings her singular voice to a story about modern life and connection “I am committed, until one of us dies, to Nunez’s novels. I find them ideal. They are short, wise, provocative, funny — good and strong company.” — Dwight Garner, The New York Times “With the intimacy and humor of a great conversation, this novel makes you feel smarter and more alive.” — People Magazine “An ode to our basic need to connect with other beings, be they human or animal, even in a global crisis that told us to stay apart.” — NPR 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 offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as 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. Humo