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It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories by Sigrid Nunez

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY PEOPLE, LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE BOSTON GLOBE, TIME, HARPER'S BAZAAR, THE MILLIONS, BOOK RIOT, AND TOWN & COUNTRY

“Stories that remind you why Sigrid Nunez is one of our best writers. Her first collection of short fiction, It Will Come Back to You, is threaded with erudition but never pretentious.” — The New York Times

"It Will Come Back To You should make you want to imbibe every word Nunez has ever written." —The Times Literary Supplement (UK)

"One of the great writers of our time." —Los Angeles Times

The first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend

Sigrid Nunez has spent three decades writing novels that find the profound inside the ordinary, The Friend, winner of the National Book Award, chief among them. It Will Come Back to You collects thirteen stories written across that entire career, many appearing together for the first time, and shows a writer working in miniature with the same precision she brings to a novel.

These stories move between the significant and the everyday, a friendship's quiet unraveling, a stranger's small kindness, the particular ache of watching someone you love age, without ever losing Nunez's balance of philosophical seriousness and dry humor. Death, grief, art, and love recur throughout, rendered in prose so unadorned it can feel like transparency.

Read together, the collection works as something closer to a career retrospective than a simple gathering of stories: a chance to watch one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive voices sharpen itself, story by story, over thirty years.

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY PEOPLE, LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE BOSTON GLOBE, TIME, HARPER'S BAZAAR, THE MILLIONS, BOOK RIOT, AND TOWN & COUNTRY

“Stories that remind you why Sigrid Nunez is one of our best writers. Her first collection of short fiction, It Will Come Back to You, is threaded with erudition but never pretentious.” — The New York Times

"It Will Come Back To You should make you want to imbibe every word Nunez has ever written." —The Times Literary Supplement (UK)

"One of the great writers of our time." —Los Angeles Times

The first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend

Sigrid Nunez has spent three decades writing novels that find the profound inside the ordinary, The Friend, winner of the National Book Award, chief among them. It Will Come Back to You collects thirteen stories written across that entire career, many appearing together for the first time, and shows a writer working in miniature with the same precision she brings to a novel.

These stories move between the significant and the everyday, a friendship's quiet unraveling, a stranger's small kindness, the particular ache of watching someone you love age, without ever losing Nunez's balance of philosophical seriousness and dry humor. Death, grief, art, and love recur throughout, rendered in prose so unadorned it can feel like transparency.

Read together, the collection works as something closer to a career retrospective than a simple gathering of stories: a chance to watch one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive voices sharpen itself, story by story, over thirty years.

  • Publisher: Riverhead Books

    Title: It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories

    Author: Sigrid Nunez

    On Sale Date: July 14, 2026

    ISBN 13: 979-8-217179-15-2

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $29.00

    BISAC: Short Stories

    Page Count: 224

  • Sigrid Nunez is the author of nine novels, including The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award, and The Vulnerables. Her honors include the Berlin Prize, the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. Her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives in New York City.

  • Readers are calling it wise, quietly devastating, and essential:

    • Called "among the best we have," with stories that are "wise, provocative, funny" by The New York Times.

    • Praised by Oprah Daily for transforming "the everyday into something quietly devastating."

    • Recommended by the Times Literary Supplement as reason enough to explore Nunez's entire catalog.

    • A rare short story collection reviewers are treating as a genuine literary event.

This book is for you if

  • You’ve already read The Friend or The Vulnerables and want more of Nunez’s voice.

  • You love short fiction that rewards close, patient reading.

  • You’re drawn to writing that finds humor inside grief without undercutting either.

  • You want a collection to read in pieces, over weeks, rather than in one sitting.

  • You appreciate literary fiction that trusts the reader with silence and restraint.

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