What Are You Going Through

<b><b>THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY NPR, <i>PEOPLE, </i>AND <i>O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE</i><br><br> A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> CRITICS’ TOP BOOK OF 2020</b><br> <b> </b><br> <b>THE INSPIRATION FOR THE FEATURE FILM BY PEDRO ALMODOVAR <i>THE ROOM NEXT DOOR</i>, STARRING JULIANNE MOORE AND TILDA SWINTON</b><br><br> “As good as <i>The Friend</i>, if not better.” —<i>The New York Times</i><br>  <br> “Impossible to put down . . . leavened with wit and tenderness.” —<i>People </i><br>  <br> “I was dazed by the novel’s grace.” </b>—<b><i>The New Yorker</i><br><br> <i>The New York Times–</i>bestselling, National Book Award<i>–</i>winning author of <i>The Friend </i>brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship</b><br><br> A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own.<br><br> In <i>What Are You Going Through</i>, Nunez brings wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times. A surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship, her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now.