THE VULNERABLES
by Sigrid Nunez (Virago, $37.99)
It is human connection that pulls our protagonist back from the brink.
At a book event earlier this year, US author Sigrid Nunez laughingly recalled a graduate student of hers who had read all her novels and had one question to ask: Did she make some of that stuff up? It’s the same anecdote repeated by Nunez’sAnd it is delivered with a knowing wink. “Some writers use pen names so that they can be more truthful,” she says. “Others, so that they can tell more lies.”
