![]() I want to start with a reading from your novel. TERRY GROSS, BYLINE: Sigrid Nunez, welcome to FRESH AIR. The novel is filled with reflections about the line between appropriate and inappropriate relations between students and teachers, what it's like to mourn a friend who left no note to explain his suicide, the bond that can develop between a dog and a person, and how being a writer has changed in the world of social media. After his death, she reluctantly inherits his dog, a 180-pound Great Dane who, like her, is grieving. She wasn't the only student he seduced, but her friendship with him outlasted his three marriages and many affairs. When she was his student, they slept together once, at his suggestion. ![]() ![]() Years before, he was her writing professor and mentor. It begins with the narrator, a woman, at the memorial of a dear friend who killed himself. ![]() We're going to listen to Terry's interview with Sigrid Nunez, who won the National Book Award for Fiction last November for her novel "The Friend," which will be published in paperback February 5. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross, who's away today. ![]()
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