Reddit users are digging up these strange events—the kind that had everyone talking for a second before they got swept under ...

Claire Messud opens “This Strange Eventful History” with a prologue that announces ... page warns nosy readers that “all characters, events, and incidents have been fictionalized.” ...

Not only human events, then, but human personality ... Messud says in her "Acknowledgments" that This Strange Eventful History is one of those "books [that] takes a lifetime to write ...

Like the Cassars, “This Strange Eventful History” deals with conflict largely by pretending it’s not there. Though the novel makes reference to most major events of the twentieth century ...

Bestselling author Claire Messud visits the Toronto Reference Library to discuss her new novel, This Strange Eventful History, an immersive story of a family born on the wrong side of history.