![]() ![]() The Friend is audacious, often thorny writing. These lines run the length of The Friend, alongside musings on trauma and abuse muteness, blindness, and disability the changing literary world and sexual harassment and assault. ![]() The first is by Natalia Ginzburg, about the futility of “consoling yourself for your grief by writing ” the second is about a dog in Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Tinderbox ” and the third is from Nicholas Baker in the Paris Review: “The question of any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?” The book’s triple epigraph should warn readers of The Friend’s complicated nature. The Friend tells the story of an unnamed writer who inherits her best friend’s Great Dane after her friend has committed suicide, but it covers a lot more ground than that. ![]() Published February 2018 by Riverhead Books ![]()
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