sfmobink 's review for:

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

5.0

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This is an great novel that brought back the horror and pain of the AIDS epidemic in the late 1980s and into the 1990s for me—but in a beautiful way. Does that sound terrible? This novel is a marvel because though the subject is beyond horrific the characters are absolutely authentic and believable and that makes all the difference. I laughed, I cried and I relived those days in a way that will haunt me for some time to come.

I wonder why more novels have not explored that time?

So many lives wasted. So much beauty lost!