The most intimate and revealing biography of Susan Sontag, one of the most important intellectuals in American history. One day in 1976, a young aspiring writer, Sigrid Nunez, crosses the door of 340 Riverside Drive, the apartment in which Susan Sontag lives, writes, loves and thinks, one of the great icons of North American intellectuality, a figure legendary thanks to his controversial essays, his overflowing intelligence and his very personal style. This first meeting would change the life of Nunez, who would end up living in that same apartment with Sontag when she became the partner of her only son. The three would form, for some time, a family as unique as it was controversial.
