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Rebecca Makkai

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Rebecca Makkai is the author of The Borrower, The Hundred-Year House, which won the Novel of the Year Award from the Chicago Writers Association, and Music for Wartime. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Harper's, and Tin House, among others. She lives outside Chicago with her husband and two daughters.

Rebecca Makkai Books

I Have Some Questions for You book cover

I Have Some Questions for You

Rebecca Makkai
The Great Believers book cover

The Great Believers

Rebecca Makkai
Music for Wartime book cover

Music for Wartime

Rebecca Makkai
The Hundred-Year House book cover

The Hundred-Year House

Rebecca Makkai
New Stories from the Midwest: 2012 book cover

New Stories from the Midwest: 2012

John McNally
The Borrower book cover

The Borrower

Rebecca Makkai
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