Rebecca Makkai

Over the moon.

It's, this, it's just incredible, and I think the zone, uh, comp titles to think about for this is, like, it's similar kinds of subject matter to both A Little Life and The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai.

Mm-hmm.

Um, not as emotionally manipulative as A Little Life, more difficult to hang with than The Great Believers, um, and the writing, he does a lot, there's a lot of tricks.

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in some ways? Well, I must now draw on, because you really made me think of The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, which is a phenomenal book that is set in Chicago in the 1980s and in Paris in, like, 2013, '14, '15, around that time.

And it's actually about the AIDS crisis and the number of men who were lost to AIDS in the States during the 1980s.

And The Great Believers is actually It's not f- as, as far as I can remember, and I do apologize for my lack of memory, but I don't know that the phrase is used in the actual book, but in the epigraph at the beginning, this is how it starts.

It really does.

So first up on Quinn's list is I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai.

Makkai's novel is just a brilliant place to start this deep dive because she fundamentally attacks the illusion of the objective narrator.

Yes.