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Rebecca Makkai

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Rebecca Makkai


Full Name and Common Aliases


Rebecca Makkai is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

Birth and Death Dates


Born on October 17, 1978, in Evanston, Illinois, USA. As of this writing, she is still alive.

Nationality and Profession(s)


American; Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist

Rebecca Makkai's writing career spans multiple genres, including novels, short stories, and essays. Her work often explores the complexities of human relationships, identity, and social issues.

Early Life and Background


Growing up in Evanston, Illinois, Makkai developed a passion for literature at an early age. She was influenced by her mother's love of reading and her own experiences as a teenager, which later shaped her writing style. Makkai attended Northbrook High School in Illinois before moving to the University of Chicago, where she earned her Bachelor's degree in English.

Major Accomplishments


Makkai's notable works include:

_The Borrower_, her debut novel published in 2011
 _The Hundred-Year House_ (2015), a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal
_I Wish This Was Funny_ (2019), a collection of short stories

Her writing has been recognized with numerous awards and nominations, including the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award.

Notable Works or Actions


Makkai's writing often delves into complex themes such as:

Family dynamics and relationships
Social issues like sexism, racism, and homophobia
 The intersection of identity and trauma

Her essays have appeared in publications like _The New Yorker_ and _Harper's Magazine_.

Quotes by Rebecca Makkai

Rebecca Makkai's insights on:

Ridiculous, but better than feeling like you lived in some alternate universe where no one could hear you calling for help. Now it was like people could hear and just didn’t care. But wasn’t that progress?
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Ridiculous, but better than feeling like you lived in some alternate universe where no one could hear you calling for help. Now it was like people could hear and just didn’t care. But wasn’t that progress?
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I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.
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I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.
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To know that somebody was longing for you was the world’s strongest aphrodisiac.
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To know that somebody was longing for you was the world’s strongest aphrodisiac.
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If we could just be on earth at the same place and same time as everyone we loved, if we could be born together and die together, it would be so simple.
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If we could just be on earth at the same place and same time as everyone we loved, if we could be born together and die together, it would be so simple.
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It helped that his accent contained a top hat and monocle.
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It helped that his accent contained a top hat and monocle.
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There were probably too many exclamation points, but I couldn’t bear to erase them. I wanted to take shelter behind their manic enthusiasm, their idiotic sparkle.
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There were probably too many exclamation points, but I couldn’t bear to erase them. I wanted to take shelter behind their manic enthusiasm, their idiotic sparkle.
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If the house hadn’t been a mansion, if the death hadn’t been a suicide, if Violet Devohr’s dark, refined beauty hadn’t smoldered down from that massive oil portrait, it wouldn’t have been a ghost story at all. Beauty and wealth, it seems, get you as far in the afterlife as they do here on earth. We can’t all afford to be ghosts.
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If the house hadn’t been a mansion, if the death hadn’t been a suicide, if Violet Devohr’s dark, refined beauty hadn’t smoldered down from that massive oil portrait, it wouldn’t have been a ghost story at all. Beauty and wealth, it seems, get you as far in the afterlife as they do here on earth. We can’t all afford to be ghosts.
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And for what portion of human history had people even had desk jobs? Maybe the last four hundred years, out of four million? It wasn’t natural.
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And for what portion of human history had people even had desk jobs? Maybe the last four hundred years, out of four million? It wasn’t natural.
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Someone had once told her that if a man sees the line of a woman’s suntan – the strip of white peeking out beneath the strap of her bathing suit or the collar of her dress – he’ll fall in love with her. Because he will believe he’s seen her truest self, raw and pale, something no other man knows. And this was the reason she’d fallen in love with George: She could see the desperate nerves beneath the bluster.
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Someone had once told her that if a man sees the line of a woman’s suntan – the strip of white peeking out beneath the strap of her bathing suit or the collar of her dress – he’ll fall in love with her. Because he will believe he’s seen her truest self, raw and pale, something no other man knows. And this was the reason she’d fallen in love with George: She could see the desperate nerves beneath the bluster.
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If everything else were still the same, he’d have felt Zee’s absence like a gaping hole. But if he could continue to reconfigure his entire life, there would be no missing place where Zee had been.
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If everything else were still the same, he’d have felt Zee’s absence like a gaping hole. But if he could continue to reconfigure his entire life, there would be no missing place where Zee had been.
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