Rebecca Makkai
American novelist and short-story writer whose The Great Believers, a novel about AIDS in 1980s Chicago, won the Carnegie Medal. Her fiction explores community, loss, and survival with emotional power. She is one of the most celebrated younger American novelists.
Works
- The BorrowerLibrarian and patron embark on road trip escaping tragedy and convention
- The Hundred-Year HouseMystery spanning fifty years through the secrets of a family estate
- The Great BelieversAIDS crisis devastates circle of friends and lovers navigating art and belonging
- I Have Some Questions for YouWoman investigating teacher's death revisits high school and complicity