The Roscoe Library has a book club, Reading with Spiritual Eyes, based on works of fiction. You’re invited to join with us ...

The Roscoe Library has a book club, Reading with Spiritual Eyes, based on works of fiction. You’re invited to join with us as we discuss It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories by Sigrid Nunez. Our discussion will be face-to-face and via Zoom. Please ensure that you register so we can keep in touch with further details closer to the event.

Over the course of thirty years, Sigrid Nunez has become one of contemporary fiction’s most distinctive voices, producing nine penetrating, profound novels celebrated by fans and critics alike. Revered for her warm, unadorned style, Nunez’s books are “as sophisticated as they are straightforward” (New York Times Magazine), melding a “wry, withering wit” (NPR) with “explosions of pathos” (Washington Post) to conjure “world[s] of insight into death, grief, art, and love” (Wall Street Journal).

But she has not, until now, produced a book of stories. In It Will Come Back to You, Nunez brings together thirteen of her best stories from the decades-long sweep of her career, tracing the origins of her style and her remarkable artistic range. Moving from the momentous to the mundane, Nunez maintains her expert balance between gravity and levity while probing the philosophical questions that illuminate her work, such as: How can we withstand the passage of time? Is memory the greatest fiction?

What New York Times critic Dwight Garner says of Nunez’s novels is true of these stories as well: “They are wise, provocative, funny—good and strong company.”

What? Book chat

Where? Lecture Room 1 + Zoom

When? Tuesday 17 November 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

How? Facilitated discussion / Drinks & nibbles provided

Who? All welcome but do please let us know if you're expecting to join us.