Author: rebeccamakkai

This “richly imagined” collection (Chicago Tribune) brims with vibrant, sweeping stories — from a circus elephant’s death to a violinist’s revelatory concert. “Rife with sentences that will stop you in your tracks with their strangeness and profundity… Makkai is a musical writer” (Library Journal starred review).

A Pulitzer Prize finalist and NPR Best Book of 2018: Two interconnected stories unfold in 1985 Chicago and present-day Paris as Yale and Fiona experience the devastation of the AIDS crisis. “A page-turner… Absorbing and emotionally riveting” (The New York Times Book Review).