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
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 […]