Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a story centering on mourning and mentorship, is fiction. Although it is narrated by a writer character who closely resembles Nunez, she has stressed that her novels depict wholly invented scenarios. Some elements of the plot were drawn from Nunez’s real-life experiences, such as the suicide of a friend who died while Nunez was working on the book. In addition, like the book’s narrator, Nunez was mentored by a famous writer, Susan Sontag. In the novel, however, the famous writer is a man.
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