Daryl Sng @darylsng.com · Jun 20

Finished Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers. Took me a while because I kept having to take breaks – anything about the 80s AIDS crisis and how it devastated communities really moves me. (See: the magnificent It’s a Sin.) But this book is also about art, memory, and the sheer psychogeography of

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Daryl Sng · Jun 20

a place and time: Chicago in the 1980s, Paris in the 1920s. And that ending, where the 2015 strand in the narrative merges with the 1980s, is both a gut punch and a celebration. Loved this book.