Rebecca Makkai Reads “The Plaza”
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The Life of Margaret Webb
Ali bought the child a book of fairy tales, blue leather with gold swirls, rich color illustrations inset. Margaret tried reading to her, but had no patience for her questions, her squirming. So Mrs. Webb read every night instead. It was so easy to believe you were living in one fairy tale and find yourself smack in the middle of another.
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