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The great believers
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"A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in 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, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon 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 crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster"--
Available copies
- 37 of 42 copies available at Westchester Library System.
Current holds
4 current holds with 42 total copies.View other formats and editions
| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ardsley Public Library | FICTION MAKKAI (Text) Fiction |
31000151199430 |
Available - |
| Bedford Free Library | FIC MAK (Text) Fiction |
31002150728813 |
Available - |
| Bedford Hills Free Library | MAKKAI (Text) Fiction |
31003151480347 |
Checked out 05/06/2024 |
| Briarcliff Manor Public Library | FICTION MAKKAI (Text) Fiction |
31036150868773 |
Available - |
| Bronxville Public Library | FICTION MAKKAI (Text) Fiction |
31004151599763 |
Available - |
| Chappaqua Library | FICTION MAKKAI (Text) Fiction |
31005500412400 |
Available - |
| Croton Free Library | FICTION/MAKKAI (Text) Fiction |
31006151683232 |
Checked out 05/07/2024 |
| Dobbs Ferry Public Library | MAKKAI (Text) Fiction |
31007151352075 |
Checked out 05/03/2024 |
| Eastchester Public Library | FICTION MAKKAI (Text) Fiction |
31008152347684 |
Available - |
| Greenburgh Public Library | MAKKAI (Text) Fiction |
31009154574267 |
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