My dear friend told me his new favorite author was Sigrid Nunez. My library has a few books by her that I can get electronically. I got Mitz first. It's about a marmoset that Leonard and Virginia Woolf had. Nunez has 8 novels and a sort of memoir of being around Susan Sontag and dating her son. She published her first book in 1995, when she was 44. She was an editorial assistant for the New York Review of Books. Her mother is German and her father is Panamanian-Chinese. Her first novel sounds like a memoir of her early years.
Books: (x=read)
A Feather on the Breath of God
Naked Sleeper
Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury (X)
For Rouenna
The Last of Her Kind
Salvation City (X)
Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag
The Friend (X)
What Are You Going Through (X)
Links
The Friend: "With ‘The Friend,’ Sigrid Nunez Becomes an Overnight Literary Sensation, 23 Years and Eight Books Later" (NY Times) "she decided to write a novel about a woman who is grieving for a friend who killed himself, a subject she was drawn to because so many people she knew seemed to be contemplating or discussing suicide. While she was working on it, one of her friends, a writer, jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge to his death, she said."
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