女主人公描述了她在日常生活中遇到的各种人：在公共论坛上偶遇的前男友，不知如何与客人互动的爱彼迎房主，寻求帮助安慰他年迈母亲的陌生人，正因癌症晚期住院的儿时伙伴。她在每个人身上发现了一个共同的需求：渴望谈论自己，渴望有听众了解自己的经历。主人公大部分时间都在当一个被动的听众，协调着这些声音，直到其中一人提出一个非同寻常的要求，吸引她进入一种强烈的、改变自己的体验。

这是一部关于当代人际关系和关系变化的小说。努涅斯（Nunez）在书中融入了智慧、幽默、洞察力，讲述了一个人如何以不同寻常的方式帮助另一个人渡过难关，为我们现在的生活方式提供了一个感人且颇有争议的描述。

A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own.

In What Are You Going Through, Nunez brings wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times. A surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship, her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now.