![]() ![]() ![]() Its rousing final pages take Fiona to the art show of an old friend of Yale’s as she encounters a film featuring the men she, Yale, and so many others loved and lost - “boys with hands in pockets, waiting for everything to begin. But if The Great Believers is heartbreaking, it isn’t quite dire. Her first, 2011s The Borrower, focuses on a childrens librarian who runs away with her favorite patron, a 10-year-old book nerd from an. Her 2018 novel, THE GREAT BELIEVERS, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the LA Times Book Prize and it was one of the New York Times' Ten Best. She inherits an agony that informs her parental failings - a legacy traced by Makkai with lucidity, as well as ample melancholy. The Great Believers is Rebecca Makkais third novel. Rebecca Makkai’s new novel, the New York Times bestselling I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, appeared in February, 2023. ![]() Fiona, as she grows older, cares for infected gay men who can’t care for themselves anymore, and watches them pass on, body by body. Yale pursues an elderly art donor - a relative of Fiona’s - who confides in him about the deaths that surrounded her WWI-era youth he’s confronted with the deep pain of merely living, of carrying on as everything meaningful around him disappears. ![]() But the book’s grander scope comes into focus. Their journeys initially seem a tad too detached, vignettes linked largely by the world they once shared. As for who lingers longest, that’d still be Yale and Fiona. ![]()
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