In Chicago, in the 1980s, the AIDS crisis tears through the gay community. Makkai covers so much the story alternates between the 1980s and 2015, but it spans far more than just those 35 years. It overflows with righteous anger, hopeless love, and effervescent hope.īut when someone’s gone and you’re the primary keeper of his memory-letting go would be a kind of murder, wouldn’t it? I had so much love for him, even if it was a complicated love, and where is all that love supposed to go? He was gone, so it couldn’t change, it couldn’t turn to indifference. The Great Believers hits hard and strikes deep. Rebecca Makkai has crafted an intricately woven tapestry that you have to witness in its full glory I do not want to give you a magnifying glass before you have had a chance to first witness the enormity of the project. I took so many notes, and placed so many scraps of paper between pages, but I do not want to ruin a single realization for you. There is so much that I want to tell you about this book, but I won’t.
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