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The Great Believers

Rebecca Makkai

Yale watches his friends disappear during the AIDS crisis in 1980s Chicago, while thirty years later in Paris his friend Fiona searches for her estranged daughter

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  • Grief & loss
  • Friendship
  • Big city
  • Steady
  • Long read
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