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. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own. A novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times.
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ISBN: 9780593295489
Physical Description:256 pages (large print) ; 21 cm
Edition:Large print edition.
Publisher:[New York] :Random House Large Print,[2020]