It Will Come Back to You

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Chicago Review of Books · 14 July 2026

Lives Behind Veils in “It Will Come Back to You”

Sigrid Nunez is such a fixture in American fiction that it’s hard to imagine someone not closely encountering any of her nine novels, which have earned her a National Book Award, a Whiting Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. I wanted to take on this review precisely because I fit that category…

By Steven Wingate

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The New York Times · 13 July 2026

‘It Will Come Back to You,’ by Sigrid Nunez

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Times Literary Supplement · 8 July 2026

What does the fox think?

Profound, quirky tales of mothers and daughters, parties and pets

By Hirsh Sawhney

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Sigrid Nunez, born 1951, United States.

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