![]() ![]() The second is set in Paris and focuses on Fiona thirty years later, a woman still dealing with the havoc AIDS wreaked, killing her brother and most of their shared friends. The first is set in Chicago and focuses on Yale and his live-in lover, Charlie, in the second half of the ‘80s. It is a page turning, heart break of a novel that lays bear the devastating impact of the AIDS epidemic at its height and in its aftermath.Īt its core are two intertwined stories. ![]() Already it’s been heaped with praise and starred reviews, and for good reason. ![]() So when her newest novel was published, The Great Believers (Viking, 2018) I jumped on it-and it did not disappoint. Then she read an early draft of my forthcoming novel, A Bend in the Stars (Grand Central, 2019), and gave extraordinary editorial comments-cementing my fandom. Her first two novels, The Borrower (Viking, 2011) and The Hundred Year House (Viking, 2014) had me. I’ve been a Rebecca Makkai fan for a while. ![]()
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