Makkai, Rebecca

Rebecca Makkai | AUDIO,  Jun 01, 2023

Highly recommended for all audio collections; for lovers of contemporary literary fiction and true crime podcasts.

Rebecca Makkai | FICTION,  Feb 10, 2023

Pulitzer Prize finalist Makkai (The Great Believers) knows whereof she writes; she lives on the campus of the boarding school she attended as a teenager, where her husband now teaches and her child is a student. Her lifelong, three-pronged immersion in that culture has resulted in a thought-provoking and delicious tale of life and death and justice that very well may have gone sideways.

Rebecca Makkai | FICTION,  May 15, 2018

Rebecca Makkai | FICTION,  Jul 10, 2015

Themes of guilt, loss, survival, and memory infuse the entire book, which is rife with sentences that will stop you in your tracks with their strangeness and profundity.

Rebecca Makkai | FICTION,  Jun 01, 2014

This novel is stunning: ambitious, readable, and intriguing. Its gothic elements, complexity, and plot twists are reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin. Chilling and thoroughly enjoyable. [See Prepub Alert, 1/10/14.]

Rebecca Makkai | MEDIA,  Oct 01, 2011