Stupid men and their stupid violence, tearing apart everything good that was ever built. She lives outside Chicago with her husband and two daughters. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Harper's, and Tin House, among others. She thought of Nora, whose art and love were interrupted by assassination and war. Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers, an artfully written and highly empathic novel, segues between Chicago in the early days of the AIDS crisis and contemporary Paris where a mother. Rebecca Makkai is the author of The Borrower, The Hundred-Year House, which won the Novel of the Year Award from the Chicago Writers Association, and Music for Wartime. It’s remarkably alive despite all the loss it encompasses. Just as she’d once been in a story about raising her own brother, growing up with her brother in the city on their own, making it in the world, when the virus and the indifference of greedy men had steamrolled through. Makkai has full command of her multi-generational perspective, and by its end, The Great Believers offers a grand fusion of the past and the present, the public and the personal. Just as she’d been in the middle of a story about divorce when the towers fell in New York City, throwing everyone’s careful plans to shit.
She was a person who was finding her daughter, making things right with her daughter, and there was no room in that story for the idiocy of extreme religion, the violence of men she’d never met. Rebecca Makkai's last novel, The Great Believers, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the LA Times Book Prize and it was one of the New York Times ' Ten Best Books of 2018.
That she’d been in the middle of a different story, one that had nothing to do with this. “She was struck by the selfish thought that this was not fair to her.
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