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Melissa Albert examines a fraught sibling relationship in her adult debut

“I remember in my old library when I was a kid, I would get into the elevator, and I was like ‘one day this elevator is going to keep going and it’s going to open onto somewhere totally new’”
Melissa Albert © Nina Subin
Melissa Albert © Nina Subin
In her adult debut, The Children, Melissa Albert explores the borders between fantasy and reality and fraught family relationships.

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