markm reviewed The Friend: A Novel by Sigrid Nunez
Review of 'The Friend: A Novel' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
3.5 *’s. Well written, entertaining, about at least some important things – grief and love – but there is a lightness to this novel. The dog is nice and I liked all the advice and quotations about writing and the occasional humorous looks at writing students that were either deprecation of sophomores or Generation Z. But perhaps because it was written as a journal, and since there is no real propulsion so rather than seeing characters' grief in a story, I felt like I was being told about it, I will have to withhold my vote for the National Book Award until I’ve read everything else on the long list.