Rebecca Makkai

Novelist

1978-04-20

Books by Rebecca Makkai

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...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies.
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She had abruptly flipped from the southern belle and was now putting on the extremely businesslike air of those perfectionist women who'd only worked in the professional world for two or three years before stopping to have children and were now terrified of not being taken seriously.
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She had abruptly flipped from the southern belle and was now putting on the extremely businesslike air of those perfectionist women who'd only worked in the professional world for two or three years before stopping to have children and were now terrified of not being taken seriously.
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...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies.
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I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There's a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.
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