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“You attend Kinloch not as a boarder but as a day student,” said Sydney.

The younger Giamatti, himself, attended the boarding school Choate as a day student.

And though the novel is pure fiction, for Makkai it represented a journey into both her past and her present: She attended a Chicago-area boarding school as a day student, and now lives and raises her children on the grounds of that same school, where her husband is on the faculty.

Makkai lives on the premises of Chicago’s Lake Forest Academy, which she attended as a day student and where her husband, whom she met later in college, has taught for two decades.

On a typical day, student drivers in a tractor-trailer navigate orange cones in the school's parking lot.