The Great Believers

WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

WINNER OF THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD - BARBARA GITTINGS LITERATURE AWARD

FINALIST FOR THE LA TIMES FICTION AWARD

'Stirring, spellbinding and full of life' Téa Obreht, New York Times
bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife

In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago,
is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing 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, he finds his partner is
infected, and that he might even have the virus himself. 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 epidemic, she finds herself finally
grappling with the devastating ways the AIDS crisis affected her life and her
relationship with her daughter. Yale and Fiona's stories unfold in incredibly
moving and sometimes surprising ways, as both struggle to find goodness in the
face of disaster.