My father was a professor [of linguistics] and a poet whose mother was a well-known novelist in Hungary. She died when I was a baby, but I was always aware of that. I don’t think I ever went, “Wow, that looks like a great life,” because she spent her life writing under Soviet oppression and did not make a lot of money and was
Rebecca Makkai
Mar 18, 2023
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