The Vulnerables

by Sigrid Nunez

Even if I did write about my own experiences, much of it would still be fiction: there is no narrative more prone to distortion than the memory of a love gone wrong.

Elegy plus comedy, she says, is the only way to express how we live now. And just because something isn’t funny in real life doesn’t mean it can’t be written about as if it were. Funny might even be the best way to write about it.