The Great Believers

In 1985 Yale Tishman is development director of a young university art gallery in Chicago and close to securing a collection of 1920s paintings that could make its name. As his career rises, AIDS kills his friends one after another, beginning with Nico, whose family keeps gay men away from the funeral. Yale learns that his jealous partner, Charlie, has been infected after an affair, and fears for his own health. Nico's younger sister Fiona, who made her brother's friends her family, is the one he has left. Thirty years later Fiona is in Paris looking for her daughter, Claire, who was lost to a cult years ago, and stays with Richard, a photographer who recorded the Chicago crisis, as the past comes back to her.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, France, 1985 and 2015

First published

2018

Author's age

40 when first published

ISBN

9780735223523 (Viking, United States)

9780708899137 (Fleet, United Kingdom)

9780735223530 (Penguin Books, United States)

9780708899120 (Fleet, United Kingdom)

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