Rebecca Makkai: “As an author I found myself very uncomfortably in the role of god in this book.”CREDIT:AGENCE OPALE / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
Rebecca Makkai was only a child when the AIDS crisis hit her hometown, Chicago, in the 1980s. It formed the backdrop to her childhood, in the way the Vietnam War had for an earlier generation in the United States. A cohort of artists, thinkers and leaders, of brothers, sons and lovers decimated. Read More
