Claire Messud's novel The Emperor's Children (2006) focuses on the stories of three friends (Danielle, Marina, and Julius) in their early thirties living in Manhattan in New York in the months leading up to the devastating attacks on the United...
Almost immediately after its publication in May 2024, Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History received buzz as a potential award winner. Messud's novel is set over the course of seventy years, from 1940 to 2010. It follows the pieds-noirs...