Stupid men and their stupid violence, tearing apart everything good that was ever built. She thought of Nora, whose art and love were interrupted by assassination and war. Makkai, whose 2018 novel The Great Believers won multiple awards including the ALA Carnegie Medal, is talking about her just-published new book: I Have Some Questions for You, in. Just as she’d once been in a story about raising her own brother, growing up with her brother in the city on their own, making it in the world, when the virus and the indifference of greedy men had steamrolled through. Just as she’d been in the middle of a story about divorce when the towers fell in New York City, throwing everyone’s careful plans to shit. She was a person who was finding her daughter, making things right with her daughter, and there was no room in that story for the idiocy of extreme religion, the violence of men she’d never met. That she’d been in the middle of a different story, one that had nothing to do with this. “She was struck by the selfish thought that this was not fair to her.
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