It’s these moments that fill the first pages of Sigrid Nunez’s new novel, What Are You Going Through, which follows the unnamed writer as she recounts a series of interactions of subtle importance. The writer is a fly on the wall, listening closely to their intimate conversation. There, she overhears a father and daughter discuss the recent passing of the daughter’s mother. When the lecture is over, the writer stumbles out of the auditorium in search of a drink, which she finds at a local café. “Our society had already become too fragmented and dysfunctional for us to fix, in time, the calamitous mistakes we had made.” “It was too late, we had dithered too long,” he says. He presents the growing threats to civilization-cyber-terrorism, climate change, global jihadism-and offers no sense of hope. Her ex-boyfriend, an author, is speaking about the bleak future of humankind. It’s September 2017, and an unnamed middle-aged writer attends a lecture at a college.
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