Sigrid Nunez

I will start.

I would recommend The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez.

Ooh.

Which features a sociable parrot, a macaw, named Eureka.

What is it about The Vulnerables that really speaks to you?

I don't know.

And I know that it's not, it's not a lot of people's favorite Si- Sigrid Nunez book, but it's mine.

Yeah.

this book yeah yeah i won't spoil it

but it's quite different to switzy but it does again i guess get you thinking about mortality and facing up to death and then looking back at life and and sigrid nunez is just such a beautiful writer lots of literary references but not in a heavy-handed way but she's just so erudite and such a cool writer but what about you

So the only one that occurs to mind, and I'm trying to remember if it's a spoiler or not, but it's Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan.

You didn't read that, I don't think.

Yep.

Uh, "The Friend" by Sigrid Nunez in 2018.

When Rebecca McKay's "The Great Believer" and Lauren Groff's "Florida" were finalists.

Nice moment for Nunez.