The Great Believers

AIDS hitting Chicago in the mid-eighties and how it pulls a circle of gay friends apart. Sex becomes politics, and a lot more complicated. Sickness, betrayal, secrets, regret and guilt. And what losing most of your friends does to those that remain, who become sole bearers of someone's memory, forever dealing with the aftermath of the experience.

Super well written, an all-around solid novel. The writing alternates between the Eighties and the present, with lose ties between the two stories. I loved everything about the Eighties and Yale a lot more. I thought Nora's exhibition, her dedication to her lost love, was beautifully - but not too neatly - woven into the whole narrative.