Nationwide Guide Award winner Sigrid Nunez’s new novel, The Vulnerables, is a have a look at life in the course of the pandemic, however you gained’t discover descriptions of sickness and demise anyplace within the novel.
As a substitute, it focuses on isolation and loneliness, significantly within the case of the unnamed narrator, who finds herself housesitting a macaw parrot together with an sudden faculty pupil. The 2 are compelled to coexist and and even develop a keenness for one another.
I lately spoke with Sigrid Nunez concerning the novel. Here is our dialog.
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