It Will Come Back to You

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, LA TIMES AND BOSTON GLOBE - AND ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS FOR 2026
The first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend 'Wryly funny and slyly provocative' DAILY MAIL
'Sigrid Nunez creates whole lives in fewer than 20 pages' JOHN SELF, THE TIMES
'Once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don't look back' ANNE ENRIGHT
It Will Come Back to You takes in thirteen stories - never before collected together - from a career spanning three decades, which has seen Nunez become one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive voices. Moving from an inappropriate teenage crush to a therapist's second chance at love, in this collection Nunez maintains her irrepressible humour, bite, and insight, while exploring the philosophical questions we have come to expect from her writing. 'Among the most interesting writers of our generation' INDEPENDENT 'It Will Come Back to You should make you want to imbibe every word Nunez has ever written' TLS 'A strange, perceptive and unsettling look at the lives of ordinary people' FINANCIAL TIMES
'One of American fiction's most crisp and realized voices. Like the food in a good restaurant, her prose is excellent but unfussy' NEW YORK TIMES
'Nunez injects these stories with a deep tenderness and a wry sense of humor, all the while challenging our conceptions of what it means to live an ordinary life' HARPERS BAZAAR, 'Best Summer Books 2026'
'Nunez [has] a no-nonsense honesty, a matchless intelligence, an unswerving empathy, and a breathtaking intimacy of voice' JENNY MUSTARD 'One of the great writers of our time . . . Reading [Nunez's] work feels like having lunch with your smartest, wisest, most empathetic friend' LOS ANGELES TIMES 'The stories show [Nunez's] gift for turning apparently ordinary lives into something stranger, funnier and more searching than they first appear' iPAPER, 'The best new books to read in July 2026'
'Long live Sigrid Nunez' LAURA MARLING 'Nunez [has] a no-nonsense honesty, a matchless intelligence, an unswerving empathy, and a breathtaking intimacy of voice' JENNY MUSTARD
'One of the great writers of our time . . . Reading [Nunez's] work feels like having lunch with your smartest, wisest, most empathetic friend' LOS ANGELES TIMES
'A treat' OPRAH DAILY, 'Best Books of the Summer 2026'
'There are two kinds of people in the world, people who haven't read Sigrid Nunez, and people who love Sigrid Nunez' CLAIRE KOHDA
'Wonderful . . . Her uncertain protagonists in an uncertain world are the perfect literary creations: vexed in their own lives but delightful to encounter' BIDISHA

Sigrid Nunez is the New York Times bestselling author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award, and of seven other novels, including Salvation City, The Last of Her Kind, and What Are You Going Through. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages.