Sigrid Nunez’s stories surprised even her

The author of the novel “The Friend” felt a burst of energy that culminated in a short story collection. Her prose is warm, powerful, precise, and shattering.

Sigrid Nunez’s stories surprised even her Loading... Sigrid Nunez declares that none of the short stories in “It Will Come Back to You” is autobiographical. “There’s a certain amount of autobiographical material in my novels,” she tells me.

“Often the narrator is a writer, but in these stories, there’s very little of that. They’re completely invented.” On the page, she’s known for her simple, warm-but-powerful prose, which is by turns hilarious and devastating.

Her full-length works often feature people, especially women, holding their ground and deviating from societal expectations, which creates dissonance between their internal and external worlds. Why We Wrote This Sigrid Nunez, the

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author of the novel “The Friend,” felt a burst of energy that culminated in a short story collection. “It Will Come Back to You” is her eleventh book, with stories plucked from different periods in her decades-long career. Her prose is warm, powerful, precise, and shattering. “It Will Come Back to You” is her eleventh book but her first collection, after producing nine novels and a memoir. The stories are plucked from different periods in her decades-long career. The majority were initially published in the last 15 years, but some go back farther. Of the 13 stories in the collection, the latest was published in 2025; the earliest came out in 1992. Initially resisting calls for a story collection Nunez never thought that she would publish a book of short stories. She’d been asked if she was going to do so, and was even queried by her literary agent, but she always set the possibility...

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