![]() ![]() In a relationship with activist and magazine publisher Charlie. In the eighties narrative it is her friend Yale who is central. The Fiona in the later narrative is still clinging to the events of thirty years before which has affected her ability to parent. In 2015, Fiona, now a mother herself, is searching for her missing daughter last known to be a member of a religious cult in the US before a sighting of her is flagged up in Paris. The novel begins with the memorial for her brother Nico whose lifestyle was rejected by his family causing an irreparable rift between Fiona and her parents as she cannot cope with his lover and friends being excluded from saying goodbye. In the Chicago section the Boystown area is being decimated by the AIDS virus and Fiona is losing those she loved. Two parallel narratives with one set in mid/late 1980’s Chicago and the other in Paris in 2015 with a handful of characters who feature in both. (Amazon currently has it as #2727 in Literary Fiction with a 4.4 rating from 509 reviews). In the UK it has remained fairly under the radar, the paperback (which I read) was published in 2019 but that still didn’t lift this book to the commercial recognition it deserves. This is a major prize-winner picking up the Carnegie Medal for Outstanding Adult Fiction, also the Stonewall Prize and gained prestigious shortlist nods for the Pulitzer Prize and US National Book Award. ![]() I’ve got round to another of the books I highlighted in my 2019 What I Should Have Read Post. ![]()
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