WHAT ARE YOU GOING THROUGH

B>NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY NPR, PEOPLE, AND O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINEbr>br> A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS TOP BOOK OF 2020br>br> NATIONAL BESTSELLERbr>br> As good as The Friend, if not better. --The New York Timesbr> br> Impossible to put down . . . leavened with wit and tenderness. --People br> br> I was dazed by the novels grace. /b>--b>The New Yorkerbr>br> The New York Timesbestselling, National Book Awardwinning author of The Friend 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 What Are You Going Through, 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.