Slowly, their uneasy coexistence becomes an intense, exclusive partnership that alarms the narrator’s friends. Apollo is also grieving, spending his days waiting forlornly at the door and his nights howling out his anguish. Then her friend’s latest wife-now widow-known as “number three,” asks the narrator to take Apollo, her husband’s massive, aged Great Dane.Įven though her apartment building does not allow dogs (and it would be impossible to hide one that’s large enough for children to ride on), she agrees. When a middle-aged New York City writing professor-unnamed, as are all human characters in the book-loses her longtime mentor and friend to suicide, she floats through her days in a bubble of stunned grief.
It’s a book of fragments that questions what it means to be human. Despite weighing in at little more than 200 pages, Sigrid Nunez’s new novel sure is heavy.īrilliant but informal, sad yet laugh-out-loud funny, The Friend is a digressive bumblebee of a novel that alights on aging, death, the waning power of literature and the strength of friendship.
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