5/23/2023 0 Comments The great believers a novel![]() ![]() Yale tries to secure an art collection worth several million dollars from an elderly woman whose late husband attended Northwestern. As the months pass, friends became “human dominoes,” as the disease decimates men in Yale’s social circle. While the party is an important event in the lives of Nico’s family and his little sister, Fiona, Yale, one of the novel’s two central characters is unaware that the party heralds an important turning point in his life. It was only “in his last days, they’d claimed him,” and now Nico is dead, Terrence isn’t welcome at Nico’s funeral vigil, so Nico’s friends gather to remember Nico at a party. His family never accepted that Nico was gay, never accepted Nico’s gay partner, Terrence. Yale, the development director of an art gallery, and his partner, newspaper owner Charlie attend a party organized for Nico’s friends. Nico, the close friend of Yale Tishman, has died of AIDS. I enjoyed it, but The Great Believers is a better, richer, more mature novel. I read The Hundred Year House back in 2014. Rebecca Makkai’s splendid novel, The Great Believers moves back and forth between two timelines while exploring themes of survival, loss, and ethics. “This disease has magnified all our mistakes.” ![]()
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