A review by lunarlilac
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

Did not finish book. Stopped at 47%.

This book was not my vibe. It was very stream on consciousness, which is okay in my opinion. However, the stream of consciousness did not relate to grief (at least not overtly if at all imo). I got half way through and the dog was discussed maybe twice in depth. I am frustrated that the marketing for this book is about “human-canine devotion” but the relationship was hardly explored and discussed. If it were marketed differently and I knew I was going to be getting critiques of the literary/writing world maybe I would have different thoughts. I thought there was more opportunity to mediate on suffering as opposed to grief (maybe those are the same in this context). I think if my expectations of the novel were different I could have enjoyed it more.