What Are You Going Through

An unexpectedly life-affirming novel about choosing to die, by National Book Award winner and bestselling author of THE FRIEND''Love, death, friendship, compassion &,amp, SO MUCH wisdom. I just adore Sigrid Nunez'' PAULA HAWKINSA woman visits a friend who is dying of cancer. Brilliant and stubborn, her friend makes a momentous request.She wishes to end her life on her own terms - and she wants the narrator''s help. Stricken, she agrees. ''I promise,'' says the friend, ''to make it as much fun as possible.''What follows is an extraordinary tale of a friendship put to the greatest test: to witness, unflinching, its end.It is also a portrait of the way we live now, in a world endlessly troubled by crises, and the dramatically changing nature of human relationships in our time.''I was totally overwhelmed by this extraordinary novel. Even if it weren''t about a subject dear to my heart I would be equally thrilled by its grace and profundity. Sentence by sentence it''s a total joy - and sometimes, much to my surprise, laugh-out-loud funny'' DEBORAH MOGGACH''If the meaning of life is that it ends, Nunez gets to the nub of meaning in her brilliant novel.I loved it as much as The Friend'' SUSIE STEINER.