Rebecca Makkai. Viking, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-02281-6
Makkai shows promise in her overworked debut, an occasionally funny crime farce about a hapless librarian–cum–accidental kidnapper. Lucy Hull is a 26-year-old whose rebellion against her wealthy Russian mafia parents has taken the form of her...
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Rebecca Makkai. Viking, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0525-42668-4
Makkai’s (The Borrower) second novel is a lively and clever story starring an estate with an intricate history. It starts in 1999, with husband and wife Doug and Zee living in the coach house of Zee’s parents’ estate, Laurelfield, which used to be...
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Rebecca Makkai. Viking, $26.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-525-42669-1
Doublings and parallels distinguish the 17 exceptionally well-told stories in Makkai's (The Hundred-Year House) outstanding debut story collection. In "November Story," a producer for a reality-based television program manipulates its participants...
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Rebecca Makkai. Viking, $27 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7352-2352-3
Spanning 30 years and two continents, the latest from Makkai (Music for Wartime) is a striking, emotional journey through the 1980s AIDS crisis and its residual effects on the contemporary lives of survivors. In 1985 Chicago, 30-something Yale...
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Rebecca Makkai. Viking, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-0-593-49014-3
Makkai returns after her Pulitzer-finalist The Great Believers with a clever and deeply thoughtful story involving a 1990s boarding school murder and its repercussions decades later. Bodie Kane, a successful 40-year-old podcaster, returns from Los...
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