The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai · 2018
A dual timeline following a group of friends during the 1980s AIDS crisis in Chicago and an art dealer in 2015 Paris. Makkai wrote the definitive AIDS novel of its generation, rich with love and loss and the way grief travels through decades.
The case against
Half this novel is essential and the other half keeps interrupting it. The 1980s Chicago chapters earn their grief; the 2015 Paris timeline, Fiona chasing her estranged daughter through a cult subplot and a conveniently placed photographer, reads like a bookmark you must keep returning to. You can feel the research too, conscientious as homework, in every period detail.
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