Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original The Bitch in My Book Stephanie FeldmanAugust 16, 2014 I didn't have any conscious intentions for the kind of protagonist Marjorie would be. She indulged every bad instinct. And it was glorious.Read
Other Claire Messud on making friends with Characters Pat JohnsonMay 6, 2013 Annasue McCleave from Publishers Weekly suggested during an interview with Claire Messud, “I wouldn’t want to be friends” with Nora, the fiery protagonist in Messud’s new novel, The Woman Upstairs. “[Nora’s] outlook is almost unbearably grim,”…Read