Fiona’s late older brother is Nico, who was the first of Yale’s friends to die from AIDS. The other half of the novel is set in 2015 and follows a woman named Fiona as she tries to track down her estranged daughter in Paris. This storyline follows a gay man in his early 30s named Yale as he and his friends grapple with the AIDS epidemic, which is increasingly impacting their own circle of friends.
The first is set in the 1980s in Boystown, Chicago (where I live, although it’s now called Northalsted). I thought I knew about the AIDS epidemic, but this book put it into an entirely new perspective for me.īefore I dive in, here is a quick overview of the novel (no spoilers). For those of you who haven’t read it yet, I will include an image below and a big subhead that says “Spoilers Below,” so you are safe to read this until that point! I would highly encourage everyone read this book, as it is beautifully written and is highly educational about a disease many people don’t know a lot about. I am going to include some spoilers later in this review, because I feel like I can’t do this book justice without them. I am not exaggerating when I say I cried straight through the final 40 pages of this book. The closest experience I can think of is when I read Marley and Me in middle school, but even then, I think it solicited maybe 2 minutes of light tears. Second of all, I have never been so emotionally impacted by a book in my entire life. I read 100 pages in a single sitting without even noticing it the pages going by.
I started reading it on Friday night and finished it within 48 hours because I was obsessively tearing through the story. First of all, The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai is an incredible book.
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