100 Notable Books of 2018
Sigred Nunez (CRF 2013) on the NY Times list of 100 Notable Books of 2018 for her novel, “The Friend.”
The narrator of Nunez’s wry novel inherits a Great Dane after her friend and mentor, an aging author, commits suicide. The novel (winner of the 2018 National Book Award for fiction) suggests that something larger than writerly passion has been lost in our culture, but itself serves as a tribute to the values it holds dear.