To join the club, subscribe for free below to access club chats on the Substack app, where you can message your thoughts while you read! Plus I send you fun prompts to get us chatting about the book. If you’re looking for a way to further support my work you can always upgrade your subscription or share the book club with a friend :)
A special thank you to Anna, our newest paid subscriber who chatted with me about their adoration for the author Sigrid Nunez!!! They said they are a huge fan and suggested we read The Vulnerables for book club! I’ve only heard amazing things about Nunez but have yet to read her work! So why not do it together in July. Thank you and welcome to the newsletter Anna!
Details:
Literary fiction, 256 pages, 2023
Here’s a Kirkus review: “Spare and understated and often quite funny,”
“Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez’s ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past.
Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others, who here include an adrift member of Gen Z and a spirited parrot named Eureka. The Vulnerables reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another’s distress.”
Grab your copies, in any form you wish, and let’s read baby!
I’ll see you in my chat (in the Substack app!) to discuss this book while we read during July!! Yay! Who’s in? Let me know in the comments.
Ohh, I remember reading an interview with Nunez in The Paris Review a few years back while on a camping trip and being very intrigued by the way she spoke about writing. I shall join in!
So excited to read this book and chat about it 📗❤️
Hey Annie I’m so excited you’re joining :) welcome!! 🥰
I just found your substack today, and have already so enjoyed what I've read so far. I'd love to join your book club!
Dee, I’m beyond happy to hear that!! It’s going to be so thoughtful and fun!
Ohh, I remember reading an interview with Nunez in The Paris Review a few years back while on a camping trip and being very intrigued by the way she spoke about writing. I shall join in!
Hey yes Natalie!