01303cam a2200325 i 4500 1269703905 TxAuBib 20240511120000.0 240423s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780393635041 039363504X TxAuBib rda Messud, Claire, 1966-, author. This strange eventful history : a novel / Claire Messud. First edition. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. rdacontent n rdamedia 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. 20240511. Families Fiction. Pieds-Noirs Algeria History Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Algeria History 20th century Fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. TXNES