![]() Rebecca Makkai: Those were two of my favorite writers when I was a child. TriQuarterly: In the book, Roald Dahl and Lois Lowry are banned from the house. She also gave a sneak peek at the books that influenced her next novel, The Hundred-Year House, which will be published by Viking/Penguin in July 2014. Makkai invited TriQuarterly into her home to explore her bookshelves, discuss her favorite children’s books, and recall the ones she had to smuggle. The strange pair leaves home behind and embarks on a cross-country roadtrip. As they continue to drive, she knows she is helping him run away. ![]() After finding Ian hiding in the library one morning, Lucy agrees to drive him to his grandmother’s house and pretends to believe his false directions. Sympathetic for Ian and his passion for books, Lucy-the town’s children’s librarian-smuggles him reading material. She only wants him to read “books with the breath of God in them.” Her list of forbidden reading material includes witchcraft, weaponry, evolution, Halloween, and anything by Roald Dahl and Lois Lowry. ![]() ![]() Rebecca Makkai’s debut novel, The Borrower, introduces us to Ian Drake, a young student whose fundamentalist mother is worried about his reading habits. ![]()
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