![]() ![]() ![]() Her definition of what it would mean to love your neighbor would be to really listen to that person and ask them, “What are you going through? What is your trouble?” Sigrid Nunez: I’ve known about it for many years and it just was something that really rang true to me when I first heard it and still does. Where did you first encounter the quote and why did it speak to you? Naomi Elias: The book’s title is pulled from an essay written by Simone Weil in Waiting For God. We discussed the perennial nature of human suffering, how she’s inspired by eavesdropping on strangers, and why her writing will never be perfect. ![]() I had the opportunity to speak with Nunez over the phone in August. What does it mean to love your neighbor? Do we ever really have control over our lives? In What Are You Going Through?, Nunez mines a single complicated relationship for the truth of it all and endows us with many possible answers. In this follow-up Nunez again probes the depths of our fears about death and our desires for companionship. The Friend was widely praised for its unflinching and elegant three-pronged interrogation of grief, death, and friendship. ![]() This new book follows on the heels of her last book, The Friend, for which Nunez won the 2018 National Book Award. ![]()
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