Winner of the National Book Award and author of The Friend, the novel that made the world fall in love with Sigrid Nunez.

Discover the full breadth of her extraordinary talent with four essential books across one summer.

For Rouenna

A writer receives a letter from an old acquaintance, recalling their shared childhood and asking if they can meet.

Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury

This tender and imaginative mock biography offers a striking look at of the life and marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, shadowed by war, death, and mental breakdown, and at the solace and amusement inspired by their pet marmoset monkey called Mitz.

Naked Sleeper

The story of a woman's search for self-knowledge, for understanding of others, and for an answer to the imperative question: How should she live?

It Will Come Back to You

Thirteen stories - never before collected together - from a career spanning three decades, which has seen Nunez become one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive voices.