A Powerful New Novel Doesn’t Deliver the Buzz of Its Author’s Previous Books. But It Brings Something Deeper.

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A Powerful New Novel Doesn’t Deliver the Buzz of Its Author’s Previous Books. But It Brings Something Deeper.
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An author revisits her own complicated family in This Strange Eventful History.

these days. “Of course, really,” Messud’s narrator continues, “I want to save lives. Or simply: I want to save life.”

That’s more like it. That’s a meaningful assertion of this novel’s purpose: to preserve and cherish the beauty and sorrow of a way of life since passed from this earth and in danger of being lost to memory.is very much a midlife novel, a work reflecting the sudden knowledge of how swiftly one reality cedes to another. Messud’s family—French, colonials born and raised in Algeria—knew this truth with a particularly deep pain.

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