It Will Come Back to You

Praise for It Will Come Back to You

“One of the great writers of our time…Reading [Nunez’s] work feels like having lunch with your smartest, wisest, most empathetic friend.” —Los Angeles Times

“[Nunez] can turn the everyday into something quietly devastating, then slip in a line that makes you laugh despite yourself.” —Oprah Daily

“Like all of her writing, Nunez injects these stories with a deep tenderness and a wry sense of humor, all the while challenging our conceptions of what it means to live an ordinary life.” —Harper’s Bazaar

“Nunez dazzles in her debut collection of stories, highlighting characters as they map the contours of their inner lives.” —The Boston Globe

“[A] masterful career-spanning story collection.… Nunez’s sharp wit remains a steady presence across the collection, roaming freely from one heavy subject to the next without ever slipping into sentimentality. It’s a treasure trove.” —Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW)

“Nunez delivers vivid portraits of people living quiet lives of desperation in these sterling short stories… A welcome addition to an already much esteemed body of work.” —Kirkus Reviews (STARRED REVIEW)

“Dazzling…Nunez has a gift for surprise.” —Booklist (STARRED REVIEW)

Praise for Sigrid Nunez

“Nunez has a wry, withering wit.” —NPR

“Nunez’s prose itself comforts us. Her confidence and direct style uplifts—the music in her sentences, her deep and varied intelligence.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Nunez has exhibited a gift for storytelling forms that smuggle dark matter into books, which nonetheless, proceed with bright, good humor.” —The New York Times Magazine

“A forceful novel by a writer of uncommon talent.” —New York Times