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Claire Messud

Claire Messud’s most recent book is The Hunters: Two Short Novels (Harvest). Twice a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, she is a current recipient of the Straus Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Nonfiction

Autumn 2004

Then

By Claire Messud

Reprinted from Pretext 7, Vol. XXVII: 2 The Maguires’ garage was immense, or seemed so, and dimly lit, in such a way that we, the children, cast strange shadows or […]