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Down memory lane: It Will Come Back to You, by Sigrid Nunez, reviewed
['Annie Walton Doyle', 'Emily Rhodes', 'Alex Peake-Tomkinson', 'Lindsay Johns', 'David Vernon', 'Keith Miller', 'Kara Thomas', 'Andrew Mcintyre', 'Fearghus Keogh', 'Kyle S. Reyes']
The Spectator Australia
Her new collection of 13 stories, written across several decades, returns to questions of memory and the unreliability of narrative.
The stories tend to have mundane settings: an insomniac awake late at night; a traveller stranded by a flight delay.
Nunez is less interested in dramatic incidents than in the way a passing encounter can alter one’s understanding of life.
Her narrators frequently find themselves re-evaluating past certainties or realising that events they thought they’d understood resist neat explanations.
Instead, Nunez embeds questions about narrative in reflective, conversational accounts of ordinary experience.