![]() ![]() I cant imagine what those poor boys went through, what it must have done to all those that survived. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai 4.22 avg. It tells a story of the gay community in Chicago during 1980s AIDS epidemic. ![]() Its rousing final pages take Fiona to the art show of an old friend of Yale’s as she encounters a film featuring the men she, Yale, and so many others loved and lost - “boys with hands in pockets, waiting for everything to begin. 'The Great Believers' - novel by Rebecca Makkai Ive just finished this book. But if The Great Believers is heartbreaking, it isn’t quite dire. She inherits an agony that informs her parental failings - a legacy traced by Makkai with lucidity, as well as ample melancholy. Fiona, as she grows older, cares for infected gay men who can’t care for themselves anymore, and watches them pass on, body by body. Yale pursues an elderly art donor - a relative of Fiona’s - who confides in him about the deaths that surrounded her WWI-era youth he’s confronted with the deep pain of merely living, of carrying on as everything meaningful around him disappears. But the book’s grander scope comes into focus. Their journeys initially seem a tad too detached, vignettes linked largely by the world they once shared. The book is a Carnegie Medal winner, 1 2 National Book Award finalist, 3 Stonewall Book Award winner, 3 and Pulitzer Prize finalist. It uses the AIDS epidemic and a mother’s search for her. The Great Believers is a historical fiction novel by Rebecca Makkai, published Jby Penguin Books. As for who lingers longest, that’d still be Yale and Fiona. Published in June by Penguin Random House imprint Viking, The Great Believers is set in Chicago during the mid-1980s and in 2015 Paris. ![]()
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