Author: Tim Murphy
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‘The Great Believers’ review: Rebecca Makkai’s AIDS novel is uneven but moving
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the storytelling of AIDS, New York and San Francisco have always dwarfed Chicago. Nevertheless, about 12,000 people have died of the disease in that city since the epidemic began in the early 1980s. Chicago has its own history of grief, upheaval, anger, activism and…