loppear reviewed The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss …
Review of 'The Great Believers' on Goodreads
4 stars
Evocative and emotional, for being set intimately in Chicago & Paris, for the terror of love and despair in the AIDS epidemic, for dying obscured and forgotten, and for the well-wrought parallel to the Lost Generation's hopelessness, potentiality, and chaos. At least, as far as I or the author can say from wholly outside.