Sigrid Nunez’s latest novel, “The Vulnerables,” tackles aging, literary precarity, the generation gap and the problem of a surprising macaw.
(Marion Ettlinger)
The Vulnerables
By Sigrid Nunez
Riverhead: 256 pages, $
Talking to Sigrid Nunez, much like reading Sigrid Nunez, is deeply pleasurable, immediately intimate. There is warmth but also urgency, and very little artifice. When I ask her a too-vague question about how time feels essential to her fiction, she answers simply, “Well, it just is. I would never be able to explain it.”
