Nunez, Sigrid

"[This book] reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other, and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another's distress. A search for understanding about some of the most critical matters of our time, [it] is also an inquiry into the nature and purpose of writing itself"--Dust jacket.

"A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. --Provided by publisher.

"When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them"--Amazon.

"When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them"--Amazon.

Thirteen-year-old Cole Vining is rescued from an orphanage after the death of his parents, who died during the flu pandemic that claimed the lives of people throughout the world, and is taken in by a evangelical pastor and his wife, but Cole struggles to feel as though he fits into life in Salvation City, Indiana, where his adoptive parents tell Cole that his biological parents are condemned to Hell for not being Christians.

Georgette George has never forgotten her college roommate, Ann Drayton, or the violent argument that ended their friendship, so when Ann is convicted of murder, Georgette begins to delve into her former friend's past in the hopes of discovering what led the young woman to kill.