Sigrid Nunez's Art of Noticing – Repeating Islands

The National Book Award winner smuggles profound reflections on pain and loss into novels of deceptive lightness. A report by Wyatt Mason for The New York Times. We began outside on Adirondack chairs still heavy with dew, the 72-year-old American novelist Sigrid Nunez preferring the shade. It was a cloudless morning in mid-August in Middlebury, Vt.,…

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