I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'

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• Rebecca Makkai:

  Despite its challenges, the novel offers an opportunity to live in one story for years of your imag

• Rebecca Makkai:

  I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one

• Rebecca Makkai:

  When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what the

• Atifete Jahjaga:

  We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, an

• Atifete Jahjaga:

  The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and ot

• Atifete Jahjaga:

  When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every cl

• Atifete Jahjaga:

  We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must h

• Atifete Jahjaga:

  Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, t

• Atifete Jahjaga:

  Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, r

• Atifete Jahjaga:

  The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States