Sigrid Nunez is the author of nine novels, including THE FRIEND, WHAT ARE YOU GOING THROUGH and THE VULNERABLES. She is also the author of SEMPRE SUSAN: A Memoir of Susan Sontag and the short story collection IT WILL COME BACK TO YOU. She has received the National Book Award, the Whiting Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has been translated into 35 languages. She lives in New York City.

Books by Sigrid Nunez

The Last of Her Kind

by Sigrid Nunez

Ann Drayton and Georgette George meet as freshmen roommates at Barnard College in 1968. Ann, who comes from a wealthy New England family, is brilliant and idealistic. Georgette, who comes from a bleak town in upstate New York, is mystified by Ann's romanticization of the underprivileged class. An intense and difficult friendship is born.