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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
I started Rebecca Makai's The Great Believers, a fictional account of the AIDS epidemic in Chicago in the 1980s. I don't know anyone my age or older who is a member of the LGBT community and not in some way touched by AIDS. Even now, I cannot give blood due to some of the relief work I have done. I have had this on the back burner of my TBR since it came out, and pride month seemed a good time to read it. I have not been disappointed.
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I finished this last night. It will most certainly be in my top 10 this year, no matter what else I read. Makkai very cleverly connected the tens of thousands who died in the early stages of the epidemic in the 80s to the Lost Generation of World War I. She also drew the story forward to the lives of those left behind and what it means to be the keeper of the memory. 5/5 stars.