The Friend, by Sigrid Nunez, is a strange book of fiction. Although it was a best seller on the New York Times list and won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2018 (and has won several other awards for her writings), I had never heard of it nor of the author. Born in New York, Nunez’s first book was published in 1995, and she has since wri
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