Shelf Life: Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez’s last book, What Are You Going Through, was a national bestseller and made its way atop many “Best of 2020” book lists. Now, she’s back with her ninth novel, The Vulnerables (Riverhead Books)—out on November 7. The story takes place at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and follows an unnamed narrator and an unlikely companion she meets while housesitting for a friend, a parrot named Eureka.