Rebecca Makkai at Lake Forest Book Store

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Rebecca Makkai, author of Music for Wartime: Stories (Viking $26.95) Wednesday November 18 at 6:00 p.m. Reservations suggested but not required at Lake Forest Book Store 847-234-4420 Refreshments will be served Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the novels The Hundred-Year House, winner of the Chicago Writers Association?s Novel of the Year award, and The Borrower, a Booklist Top Ten Debut which has been translated into eight languages. Named one of the must-read books of the summer by the"Chicago Tribune, O, The Oprah Magazine," "BuzzFeed," "The Huffington Post," "Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "and"The L Magazine "Rebecca Makkai s first two novels, "The Borrower" and "The Hundred-Year House," have established her as one of the freshest and most imaginative voices in fiction. Now, the award-winning writer, whose stories have appeared in four consecutive editions of "The Best American Short Stories, " returns with a highly anticipated collection bearing her signature mix of intelligence, wit, and heart. A reality show producer manipulates two contestants into falling in love, even as her own relationship falls apart. Just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a young boy has a revelation about his father's past when a renowned Romanian violinist plays a concert in their home. When the prized elephant of a traveling circus keels over dead, the small-town minister tasked with burying its remains comes to question his own faith. These transporting, deeply moving stories some inspired by her own family history amply demonstrate Makkai s extraordinary range as a storyteller, and confirm her as a master of the short story form.