It Will Come Back to You
Collected Stories
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- $199.00
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- $199.00
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY PEOPLE, LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE BOSTON GLOBE, TIME, HARPER'S BAZAAR, THE MILLIONS, BOOK RIOT, AND TOWN & COUNTRY
“Stories that remind you why Sigrid Nunez is one of our best writers. Her first collection of short fiction, It Will Come Back to You, is threaded with erudition but never pretentious.” —The New York Times
"It Will Come Back To You should make you want to imbibe every word Nunez has ever written." —The Times Literary Supplement (UK)
"One of the great writers of our time." —Los Angeles Times
The first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend
Over the course of thirty years, Sigrid Nunez has become one of contemporary fiction’s most distinctive voices, producing nine penetrating, profound novels celebrated by fans and critics alike. Revered for their warm, unadorned style, Nunez’s books are “as sophisticated as they are straightforward” (New York Times Magazine), melding a “wry, withering wit” (NPR) with “explosions of pathos” (Washington Post) to conjure “world[s] of insight into death, grief, art, and love” (Wall Street Journal).
But she has not, until now, produced a book of stories. In It Will Come Back to You, Nunez brings together thirteen of her best stories from the decades-long sweep of her career, tracing the origins of her style and her remarkable artistic range. Moving from the momentous to the mundane, Nunez maintains her expert balance between gravity and levity while probing the philosophical questions that illuminate her work.
What New York Times critic Dwight Garner says of Nunez’s novels is true of these stories as well: “They are . . . wise, provocative, funny—good and strong company.”
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Nunez, winner of the National Book Award for The Friend, offers more close readings of human nature in this masterful career-spanning story collection. Taken together, the entries reveal her considerable range: from the nightmarish "Airport Story," in which an unnamed woman is trapped in an airline terminal, and the unrelenting "The Plan," which probes the unpleasant psyche of a would-be murderer, to moments of levity. Most reflect the texture of ordinary life—jury duty, long commutes, the friction of living on top of one's neighbors in noisy New York City. In the standout "It's All Good," a middle-aged brother and sister grapple with their mother's decline from dementia and debate whether to hire a Brad Pitt impersonator to visit her, given that she's a big fan of the actor. Later, Nunez wryly notes that a bedridden neighbor at the mother's assisted living residence, whom the mother inexplicably feels threatened by, "could easily be mistaken for a mummy." Even Nunez's more placid characters carry secrets and are drawn toward taboo behavior, such as the young woman in "Curiosity" who trades places with a sex worker for one night and finds the experience "incredibly sexy." Nunez's sharp wit remains a steady presence across the collection, roaming freely from one heavy subject to the next without ever slipping into sentimentality. It's a treasure trove.
