A marriage, a temptation, and the long shadow of a famous father — an early gem from the National Book Award–winning author of The Friend.
Nona Vincent is writing a book about her father — a painter who abandoned the family when she was a child and died before she could know him. When the project takes her from New York to an artists' colony, and from the steadiness of her marriage toward a stranger's attention, the questions she is asking about her father's life begin to circle back on her own: about fidelity and restlessness, about what we inherit, and about how well we ever know the people we love — or ourselves.
Written with the cool intimacy that would later make The Friend beloved worldwide, Naked Sleeper shows Nunez already master of her great subject: the inner weather of an intelligent woman's life.
About the author
Sigrid Nunez won the National Book Award for The Friend. This early novel is reissued by Virago alongside Mitz and For Rouenna — all three on our shelves.
