![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The contingency of existence is an amazement to her, and difficult to metabolize. Some days the friend worries her death will be painful other days she fears it will merely be a bore. About the notion that cancer is an opportunity for spiritual growth, she asks, “Who wants to die listening to that crap.” This unnamed friend is, as Sontag was, a critic of illness culture. The terminally ill friend in this novel resembles Susan Sontag, whom Nunez knew and wrote about in a memoir titled “Sempre Susan.” This friend is an intimidating writer she lives in New York City before chemotherapy, she had important hair. The primal question it asks is this: If a terminally ill friend asked you to be with them, in another room, while they took the pills that would end their life, would you say yes or no? Either answer has its moral hazards. It’s as good as “The Friend,” if not better. “What Are You Going Through” is a short novel, set roughly in the present. ![]()
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