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Rebecca Makkai

(1978) Novelist

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Rebecca Makkai is a novelist.

Quick Facts About Rebecca Makkai

Born: April 20, 1978
Profession: Novelist

About Rebecca Makkai

[Wikidata] American writer... | [Wikipedia] Rebecca Makkai is an American novelist and short story writer. She is best known for writing The Great Believers (2018) and I Have Some Questions for You (2023), which have been positively received by critics and won awards such as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Me

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“I'd forgotten that all runaway stories end like this. Everyone goes home. Dorothy clicks her way back to Kansas, Ulysses sails his…

Way home

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“If there was a common thread between the great warriors and runaways of my Hulkinov ancestors, and my father the pathological expatriate,…

Self righteousness

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“Without knowing I was going to, I started to laugh, a crazy laugh like Ian's the night before, and at first he…

Laughter

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“Ian once suggested that in addition to the mystery stickers and the sci-fi and animal ones, there should be special stickers for…

Book

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“By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at…

Desolate

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