What Are You Going Through
By Sigrid Nunez
Categories: Literature & Fiction
What Are You Going Through (2020) is a novel by Sigrid Nunez narrated by an unnamed woman in New York. An old friend with terminal cancer, who plans to end her life with a euthanasia pill, asks the narrator to stay with her during her final months in a rented house. The two women share memories and dark jokes as the narrator meets strangers whose own stories reflect on suffering, empathy and friendship.