Claire Messud Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/claire-messud/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Fri, 29 Apr 2022 22:05:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Claire Messud Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/claire-messud/ 32 32 38398750 The Burning Girl by Claire Messud https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/09/burning-girl-claire-messud/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/09/burning-girl-claire-messud/#comments Thu, 07 Sep 2017 07:57:31 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9292 Julia and Cassie meet in nursery school and are best friends from that moment on. Cassie is the power and spirit in their duo and Julia is the steadfast and careful one. The dynamic works until the end of middle school when what was so strong starts to fray. Cassie makes a new friend, a […]

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