Rebecca Makkai
Chicago in 1985 and Paris in 2015, following a group of friends through the AIDS crisis and the woman still looking, thirty years later, for what it took.
Before you start: The AIDS crisis, terminal illness, grief and estrangement throughout.
Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ+
Tropes: dual timeline, found family, grief, friendship
421 pages · published 2018