Product Description
It Will Come Back to You
Author: Sigrid Nunez
Format: Hardcover
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY VOGUE, HARPER’S BAZAAR, LA TIMES AND BOSTON GLOBE – AND ONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS FOR 2026
‘A treat’ OPRAH DAILY, ‘Best Books of the Summer 2026’
The first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend
It Will Come Back to You takes in thirteen stories – never before collected together – from a career spanning three decades, which has seen Nunez become one of contemporary fiction’s most distinctive voices. Moving from an inappropriate teenage crush to a therapist’s second chance at love, in this collection Nunez maintains her irrepressible humour, bite, and insight, while exploring the philosophical questions we have come to expect from 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’ HARPERS BAZAAR, ‘Best Summer Books 2026’
‘The stories show [Nunez’s] gift for turning apparently ordinary lives into something stranger, funnier and more searching than they first appear’ iPAPER, ‘The best new books to read in July 2026′
‘Wryly funny and slyly provocative’ — DAILY MAIL
‘Sigrid Nunez creates whole lives in fewer than 20 pages’ — JOHN SELF, THE TIMES
‘Once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don’t look back’ — ANNE ENRIGHT
‘Among the most interesting writers of our generation’ — INDEPENDENT
‘It Will Come Back to You should make you want to imbibe every word Nunez has ever written’ — TLS
‘A strange, perceptive and unsettling look at the lives of ordinary people’ — FINANCIAL TIMES
‘One of American fiction’s most crisp and realized voices. Like the food in a good restaurant, her prose is excellent but unfussy’ — NEW YORK TIMES
‘Nunez [has] a no-nonsense honesty, a matchless intelligence, an unswerving empathy, and a breathtaking intimacy of voice’ — JENNY MUSTARD
‘One of the great writers of our time . . . Reading [Nunez’s] work feels like having lunch with your smartest, wisest, most empathetic friend’ — LOS ANGELES TIMES
‘Long live Sigrid Nunez’ — LAURA MARLING
‘Nunez [has] a no-nonsense honesty, a matchless intelligence, an unswerving empathy, and a breathtaking intimacy of voice’ — JENNY MUSTARD
‘One of the great writers of our time . . . Reading [Nunez’s] work feels like having lunch with your smartest, wisest, most empathetic friend’ — LOS ANGELES TIMES
‘There are two kinds of people in the world, people who haven’t read Sigrid Nunez, and people who love Sigrid Nunez’ — CLAIRE KOHDA
‘Wonderful . . . Her uncertain protagonists in an uncertain world are the perfect literary creations: vexed in their own lives but delightful to encounter’ — BIDISHA
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