01437cam a2200337 i 4500 1273448311 TxAuBib 20240524120000.0 240423s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2024008572 9780393635041 HRD 29.99 039363504X HRD 29.99 TxAuBib rda Messud, Claire, 1966-, author. This Strange Eventful History [Book] : a novel / Claire Messud. First edition. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024] 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 20240524. Families Fiction. Pieds-Noirs Algeria History Fiction. Pieds-Noirs France History Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Algeria History 20th century Fiction. Historical fiction. fast Novels. fast