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.,…
Perhaps Emily Dickinson was right when she wrote that “Hope is the thing with feathers.” That’s a conclusion one might reach, in any case, from reading Sigrid Nunez’s probing, delightful and masterful new novel, “The Vulnerables,” whose most endearing character is an erudite green parrot named Eureka.
Sigrid Nunez's new novel, 'The Vulnerables,' completes a trilogy that began with 'The Friend,' which won a National Book Award. What's her secret? Odd pets.