The Great Believers
Two interlocking stories about the AIDS crisis in 1980s Chicago and a woman searching for her estranged daughter in 2015 Paris.
“Rebecca Makkai's dual-timeline novel is devastating and necessary — a portrait of a community under siege and the reverberations that last decades.”
Rebecca Makkai's dual-timeline novel is devastating and necessary — a portrait of a community under siege and the reverberations that last decades.
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