Claire Messud isn’t entirely sure how long she has worked on her latest novel, This Strange Eventful History, which will be released in mid-May. Over lunch in Manhattan earlier this month, she laid out a timeline with as many hops and skips as her entwined plots. The project began about a decade ago with students in Hunter College’s MFA program serving as her research assistants, but in some ways, she has been waiting to write this story her whole life.
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