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” The Great Believers” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico’s funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico’s little sister. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.

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The story centers around two characters: Yale Tishman and his friend Fiona. The 1980s storyline, told with Yale’s perspective, opens with Fiona’s brother and Yale’s friend Nico dying of AIDS. Nico and Fiona’s family stigmatized Nico’s homosexuality, but Fiona refuses to let such prejudice stand by rebelling. Nico’s funeral is attended by a plethora of gay men, all of whom would soon become potential targets of this evil yet contagious virus.The 2015 storyline, told from Fiona’s perspective, opens in Paris where she is trying to track down her estranged daughter. She ends up staying with a friend from this same community from the 1980s, one who photographically documented the Chicago epidemic. These experiences make her come to grips with how this dramatic crisis altered the foundation of her life.