Rebecca Makkai's latest novel forms a satisfying conspiracy between reader and writer.
by Aimee Levitt
Rebecca Makkai's new novel, The Hundred-Year House, is a mystery that takes an unusual form: the Chicago author begins with a happy ending, then progresses backward in time, simultaneously revealing the origins of various deceptions that got the narrative so tangled in the first place and laying down the clues that have already been uncovered in part one. It's one of those books that improves on a rereading, so you can see how all the pieces fall into place.…[ Read more ]