The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.
Alternating between 1985/86 as Yale Tishman deals with the AIDS pandemic that is ravaging his community in Chicago, and thirty years later in 2015 as Fiona, (a. I fell in love with the characters and hated for it to end. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai, took me back to the 1980s AIDS crisis and ripped my heart out all over again. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister.
One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Rebecca Makkai reads her story The Plaza, which appeared in the May 8, 2023, issue of the magazine. A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris
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