The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai's The Great Believers (2018) is a gay fiction novel. Key subjects include families, brothers and sisters, mothers and daughters and art museums.
53 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 7 editions.
It runs to roughly 528 pages — 9–10 hours of reading at an average pace.
About The Great Believers
In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDs epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, he finds his partner is infected, and that he might even have the virus himself. The only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago epidemic, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways the AIDS crisis affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. Yale and Fiona's stories unfold in incredibly moving and sometimes surprising ways, as both struggle to find goodness in the face of disaster.
Quick answers
Who wrote The Great Believers?
The Great Believers was written by Rebecca Makkai and first published in 2018.
What genre is The Great Believers?
It is usually shelved as Gay Fiction.
How long is The Great Believers?
The median edition has 528 pages, about 9–10 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to The Great Believers?
Readers who like it often enjoy A Little Life, Dream Boy and A Home at the End of the World.
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