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When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master. More about this book >
Sigrid Nunez, Fiction Winner, reads "The Friend" at the 2018 National Book Awards Finalists Reading
Author of The Friend Sigrid Nunez accepts the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction
Sigrid Nunez has published nine novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, The Friend, What Are You Going Through, and, most recently, The Vulnerables. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. A collection of her short fiction, It Will Come Back to You, will be published in July 2026. The Friend, a New York Times bestseller, won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the 2020 Dublin Literary Award. Nunez’s other honors include a Whiting Award, a Berlin Prize fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a Windham–Campbell Literature Prize.
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