{"product_id":"it-will-come-back-to-you-collected-stories","title":"It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eIt Will Come Back to You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the great writers of our time...Reading [Nunez's] work feels like having lunch with your smartest, wisest, most empathetic friend.\" -- \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Nunez] can turn the everyday into something quietly devastating, then slip in a line that makes you laugh despite yourself.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Oprah Daily \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Nunez dazzles in her debut collection of stories, highlighting characters as they map the contours of their inner lives.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Sharp, funny and insightful, these quick-reads make for good company.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"[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.\" -- \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(STARRED REVIEW) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"All of the stories in the brilliant \n\u003ci\u003eIt Will Come Back to You\u003c\/i\u003e employ Nunez's genius at turning the anodyne into something unex­pected and startling...Nunez is masterfuL...The stories in \n\u003ci\u003eIt Will Come Back to You\u003c\/i\u003e showcase a writer at her best.\" \n\u003cb\u003e --\u003ci\u003eBookPage \u003c\/i\u003e(STARRED REVIEW)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\" -- \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e(STARRED REVIEW) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Dazzling...Nunez has a gift for surprise.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(STARRED REVIEW)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Sigrid Nunez\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Nunez has a wry, withering wit.\" -- \n\u003cb\u003eNPR\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Nunez's prose itself comforts us. Her confidence and direct style uplifts--the music in her sentences, her deep and varied intelligence.\" -- \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Nunez has exhibited a gift for storytelling forms that smuggle dark matter into books, which nonetheless, proceed with bright, good humor.\" -- \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A forceful novel by a writer of uncommon talent.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSigrid Nunez\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of nine novels, including \n\u003ci\u003e The Friend\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eWhat Are You Going Through\u003c\/i\u003e, and \n\u003ci\u003eThe Vulnerables\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the author of \n\u003ci\u003eSempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received the National Book Award, the Whiting Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY \u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES, THE BOSTON GLOBE\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHARPER'S BAZAAR\u003c\/i\u003e, AND MORE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the great writers of our time.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first ever collection of short stories from the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Friend\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver 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 their warm, unadorned style, Nunez's books are \"as sophisticated as they are straightforward\" ( \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e), melding a \"wry, withering wit\" (NPR) with \"explosions of pathos\" ( \n\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) to conjure \"world[s] of insight into death, grief, art, and love\" ( \n\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e). \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut she has not, until now, produced a book of stories. In \n\u003ci\u003eIt Will Come Back to You\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e critic Dwight Garner says of Nunez's novels is true of these stories as well: \"They are . . . wise, provocative, funny--good and strong company.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/15\/2026 (EAN 9798217179152, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/04\/2026 (EAN 9798217179152, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/01\/2026 (EAN 9798217179152, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/span\u003e 12\/30\/0001 (EAN 9798217179152, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496248246550,"sku":"9798217179152","price":34.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9798217179152.jpg?v=1783058183","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/it-will-come-back-to-you-collected-stories","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}