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This strange eventful history : a novel / Claire Messud.

Messud, Claire, 1966- (author.).

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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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  • ISBN: 9780393635041
  • ISBN: 039363504X
  • Physical Description: 428 pages : maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]

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Families > Fiction.
Pieds-Noirs > Algeria > History > Fiction.
Pieds-Noirs > France > History > Fiction.
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Algeria > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Novels.

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Marion Library FIC MES (Text) 37810435817712 Adult Fiction Available -
Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library F MESSUD (Text) 39493110131986 Adult Fiction Available -
Alexander Main Library F Messud (Text) 34269001430694 Adult Fiction Available -
Benhaven Public Library F Mes (Text) 33630005383091 Adult Fiction Available -
Black Mountain Library F MES (Text) 0020660296110 Adult Fiction Checked out 07/31/2026
Bordeaux Library F MESSUD (Text) 31781068920626 Adult Fiction Available -
Cleveland County Main Library F MESSUD (Text) 22281500157999 Adult Fiction Available -
Cumberland Headquarters F MESSUD (Text) 31781068920634 Adult Fiction Available -
East Asheville Library F MES (Text) 0020513943694 Adult Fiction Available -
East Regional Library F MESSUD (Text) 31781068920659 Adult Fiction Available -
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