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 * In A Feather on the Breath of God    (1995), "a young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant     parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother, who meet in     postwar Germany and settle in New York City. Growing up in a housing     project in the 1950s and 1960s, the narrator escapes into dreams inspired     both by her parents’ stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the     otherworldly life of ballet."[1] The New York Times     described Nunez's debut as "A forceful novel by a writer of uncommon     talent.”[2]
 * Naked Sleeper (1996) is "a    novel about the inescapable and sometimes unendurable complexities of love     and the family drama,"[3] in which a woman falls into an     extramarital affair and attempts to understand the father who abandoned     her as a child.
 * Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury (1998) is a    mock biography of a pet marmoset belonging to Leonard and Virginia     Woolf. NPR described Mitz as     “[a] wry, supremely intelligent literary gem about devotion.”
 * For Rouenna (2001): “Now in her fourth and    perhaps best novel to date—about a writer haunted by her brief friendship     with a former Vietnam combat nurse—Nunez revisits familiar Proustian     territory with a frightening rigor.”[VV review:

https://www.villagevoice.com/2001/11/27/nam-de-plume-2/


 * The    Last of Her Kind     (2006) follows the arc of a friendship between two women from different     socioeconomic backgrounds who meet as roommates at Barnard College in 1968.     Nunez has said that she wanted to write about the sixties by imagining the     lives of "specific individuals who happened to come of age in that     revolutionary time." Andrew O’Hehir called it “perhaps the finest [social     novel] yet written about that peculiar generation of young Americans who     believed their destiny was to shape history.”
 * In Salvation    City (2010), a thirteen-year-old boy is orphaned in a global flu     pandemic and sent to live with an evangelical pastor and his wife.  “Salvation     City is a story of love, betrayal, and forgiveness. It is about     spiritual and moral growth, and the consolation of art.” Gary Shteyngart     has said that the novel “makes one reconsider the ordering of our world.”
 * Sempre    Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag
 * at once a window into the writing life in    general, an examination of the complexities of one artist in particular,     and a tribute to the lost intellectual New York City of the 1970s.