This strange eventful history: a novel
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©2024
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Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.
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9780393635041
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Families -- Fiction
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Historical fiction
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Secrecy -- Fiction
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This strange eventful history : a novel
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This Strange Eventful History [electronic resource] / Claire Messud
This strange eventful history : a novel / Claire Messud
This strange eventful history : a novel / Claire Messud
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This strange eventful history
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a novel
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Secrecy
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