“The Great Believers” tells the story of a young man named Yale Tishman and his experience of losing his friends one by one to the growing AIDs epidemic at the time the novel takes place. Makkai’s novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and awarded the ALA Carnegie Medal and the LA Times Book Prize. Scott Fitzgerald that ultimately landed her in one place: 1980s Chicago in the midst of the AIDs epidemic.Īfter years of research and conceptualizing her ideas, “ The Great Believers” was born. ” Scrapping her previous ideas and looking for a new creative direction, Makkai was evoked by the passage of time that inspired prolific authors such as F. When Rebecca Makkai was starting her third commercial novel in a remote artist residency in Wyoming, her husband told her it was following the same plot as the movie “Titanic.
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