Half-drunk bottles and cocktail glasses are scattered throughout the room the vinyl record spins in silence.
When he emerges, some thirty minutes later, he is greeted by a surreal sight: the party has been abruptly abandoned.
The actual funeral, for a young man named Nico Marcus, is unfolding concurrently twenty miles north: it’s 1985, and Nico is dead from AIDS, and his family has made it abundantly clear that his lover and tight-knit circle of friends are unwelcome at the church where he is being laid to rest.Ībout halfway through the night, one of Nico’s closest friends, Yale Tishman, is overcome with emotion and retreats upstairs to collect himself. More specifically, it opens at a funeral party. The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai’s magnificent new novel, opens at a funeral. This isn’t a negative quality it’s another piece of the book’s authenticity.” The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai She doesn’t reflect much on her behavior, or offer evidence that she understands why she acts so self-destructively. Coldiron writes, of the book’s narrator: “Callie is a heroine to remember, a perfect personification of the era of adolescence when decisions were easily made and long regretted. Next, Katharine Coldiron reviews Eleanor Kriseman’s debut novel The Blurry Years. Preston writes: “With this, her fourth book, Makkai has crafted a deeply compassionate character study that is also a genuine, one-more-chapter-before-bed pageturner, a sweeping historical saga that never loses sight of its emotional core.” First up, Will Preston reviews our Volume VII judge Rebecca Makkai’s latest novel The Great Believers.
Today, we present reviews of two recent summer releases. There is nothing like a good book in the summertime.
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