And this is when the friend who's dying from cancer tells the narrator that she wants to go somewhere else to die. So I want you to do a short reading from the book. Sigrid Nunez received a 2018 National Book Award for her previous novel, 'The Friend.' She's taught at Princeton and Columbia and currently teaches at Boston University. In a New York Times book review, Janice Lee wrote, in 'What Are You Going Through,' Nunez tells the simplest of stories about a woman accompanying a terminally ill friend through her last months and expands it into an exploration of the largest themes, nothing less than the realities of living and dying in this world and how we feel about both. Part of the dying woman's plan is to end her life with a euthanasia drug when she feels the time is right.

She asked the narrator to be that person. On a more personal level, the narrator's old friend, a famous writer and intellectual, is dying of cancer and wants her final days to be spent in solitude but wants a friend to be with her. He angers audiences by suggesting maybe it's time to stop having children. The narrator of the new novel is a woman whose ex is a well-known professor and author who's been writing and giving talks about how climate change, bioterrorism, cyberterrorism, the threat of a pandemic, far-right regimes and corporate power are a threat to life, liberty and civilization. She wrote it before the pandemic, but one of her previous novels was set during a flu pandemic that results in anarchy. My guest Sigrid Nunez has written a new novel that's about facing the possible death of our planet from climate change while also dealing with our mortality as individuals.

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