![]() ![]() It's the kind of book that throws open the door of a world and welcomes you inside. The Great Believers is the kind of book that reminds me why I love reading in the first place, a book that lets you live a part of someone else's life. It's a story that draws guffaws in one moment and tears in the next and captures the friends-are-your-family ethos that was such an important part of LGBT culture. Like so many other novels I’m drawn to, it’s also about the legacy that parents pass on to their children. Makkai’s third novel is a tour-de-force exploration of a group of friends during the AIDS crisis, and how the epidemic casts its shadow more than a generation later. Thirty years later, Fiona Marcus, connected to Yale through her long-deceased brother Nico, sets out to find her missing daughter Claire in Paris, last seen living as part of a Colorado cult. In mid-1980s Chicago, gallery executive Yale Tishman tries to help an elderly woman stage an art show that includes her obscure lover. ![]()
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