Spanning continents and decades, Messud’s new novel is at once an expansive and piercingly intimate look at the forces that shape a family “Life is damage,” Claire Messud observed in a 2022 interview ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Before she could write her new work of fiction, This Strange Eventful History, Claire Messud had to wait ...

The author of ‘This Strange Eventful History' spoke with PEOPLE at the Texas Book Festival about her thoughts on success and who she'd want to portray her characters Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books ...

Claire Messud's novel "This Strange Eventful History" is out now. (Author photo courtesy Lucia Wood; book cover courtesy W. W. Norton) In the prologue to “This Strange Eventful History,” Claire Messud ...

Although Claire Messud is a celebrated novelist, she is not the first writer in her family. Her grandfather wrote a book by hand in French that ran well over a thousand pages. It was part memoir, part ...

Inspired by her own family’s past, Claire Messud’s “This Strange Eventful History” unfolds over seven decades and two wars. By Joan Silber Joan Silber’s most recent books of fiction are “Secrets of ...

Claire Messud's new novel, This Strange Eventful History, is a cosmopolitan, multigenerational story that, paradoxically, sticks close to home. Messud drew her novel from a handwritten memoir of over ...

The author of ‘This Strange Eventful History' spoke with PEOPLE at the Texas Book Festival about her thoughts on success and who she'd want to portray her characters Franco Origlia/Getty Claire Messud ...