TY - BOOK AU - Sigrid Nunez AU - NUNEZ (Sigrid) TI - What Are You Going Through SN - 9780349013657 U1 - 813.54 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Great Britain PB - Virago Press KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Empathy KW - Memory KW - American English Fiction N2 - **THE BRAND-NEW NOVEL BY THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER** A woman visits a friend with terminal cancer. Brilliant, strong-willed and alone, the friend, facing death, makes a momentous request. Will she accompany her on a holiday where she will, without warning one day, take a lethal pill to end her life on her own terms? Shaken and grieving, she finds the strength to agree. What follows is an extraordinary story - profound, surprising and often funny - of a lifelong friendship given the ultimate challenge; to witness its end. Utterly of our moment and timeless, What Are You Going Through is a deeply moving affirmation of life in its current existential threat and in its ordinary tragedies - the loss, loneliness, and the love that yet survives ER -