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“Sigrid Nunez’s new novel The Vulnerables is set in Covid-era New York, in which an unnamed female writer moves into a friend-of-a-friend’s apartment to look after their pet macaw, Eureka. This is, technically, her second ‘pandemic novel,’ after Salvation City (2010), which is set during a fictional flu outbreak. Previously Nunez has commented how, when the 2020 lockdowns came into effect, she had a sense of eerie premonition—’When all of this started, I thought, ‘Wait, didn’t I write a book about it?'” Read more...
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
