For Rouenna

By: Sigrid Nunez

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Paperback | 14 July 2026 | Edition Number 1

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From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, one of the most celebrated novelists of her generation, the story of a woman's experiences of war and an unusual friendship

'After my first book was published, I received some letters.' So begins Sigrid Nunez's haunting novel about the poignant and unusual friendship between a writer and a retired army nurse who seeks her out decades after their childhood in the same housing project. Among the letters the narrator receives is one from a Rouenna Zycinski, recalling their old connection and asking if they can meet. Though fascinated by the stories Rouenna tells about her life as a combat nurse in Vietnam, the narrator flatly declines her request that they collaborate on a memoir. It is only later, in the aftermath of Rouenna's shocking death, that the narrator is drawn to write about her friend--and her friend's war. Writing Rouenna's story becomes all-consuming, at once a necessity and the only consolation.

For Rouenna, an unforgettable novel about truth, memory, and unexpected heroism by one of the most gifted writers of her generation, is also a remarkable and surprising new look at war.

'For Rouenna is about everything: war and remembrance, how we invent our 'selves' and why; why we kill ourselves--or live. I was dazzled by this book' Washington Post

'Resonant and provocative' Vogue

'Once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don't look back' ANNE ENRIGHT

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For Rouenna is about everything: war and remembrance, how we invent our 'selves' and why; why we kill ourselves-or live. I was dazzled by this book - Washington Post

Nunez fashions the Vietnam novel we didn't know we were missing - New York Daily News

An entirely different kind of war novel...in her spare, gorgeous prose....What emerges is something that feels like truth - San Francisco Chronicle

Resonant and provocative - Vogue

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