Thought Train to Pusan

--> Happy Pride month, y’all! Our library has a wonderful little feature display of LGBT+ books, and go figure, the last thing I just returned ended up immediately on it, as well as this book here being something that could easily be featured on it. And a great book it is, in my opinion! If, perhaps, quite an emotional one, given the often difficult-but-important subject matter. And I wanted to read something like this right now as I parse through some complicated personal feelings regarding Pride this year; well, it’s a lot to get into and here is maybe not the place, but what I will say is that we cannot lose the history and importance of said history when understanding where we are now and how we understand other peoples’ experiences, etc. The Great Believers is a story split into two timeframes: one in the 1980s-1990s follows a young man named Yale, living in Chicago and grappling with the realities of the AIDS epidemic, as it begins to affect his world and ...