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Claire Messud: Burning Girl

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Channel: Chicago Humanities · 2017 · Nonprofits & Activism

One of our finest novelists, Claire Messud weaves compelling, irresistible fictional worlds while asking the big questions: To what extent can we know ourselves and others? What stories do we create to comprehend our lives and relationships? Messud's latest novel, The Burning Girl, is a bracing, hypnotic coming–of–age story about the bond of best friends that straddles childhood’s imaginary worlds and painful adult reality. Booklist Editor Donna Seaman joins Messud for a conversation on youth, friendship, and female adolescence.

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