Review: Anthony Domestico on Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez’s novels move by association. In a typical passage from her latest book, The Vulnerables, her narrator, a writer living through the early days of the Covid lockdown in New York City, sees some hydrangeas, which leads her to think about two Rilke poems, “Blue Hydrangea” and “Pink Hydrangea,” which reminds her how an editor once cut a referen…