Makkai, Rebecca

"In the riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers, a woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite New England boarding school"--.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

A couple living on a historic estate that once housed an artists' colony make a discovery that leads them on a journey into the past as the secrets of the house and the people who lived there are revealed.

This novel follows the lives of the inhabitants of Laurelfield, an estate north of Chicago, from 1900 to 1999, including Violet Devohr, the original inhabitant, who returns as a ghost and haunts subsequent generations, and her great-granddaughter, Zee.

Lucy Hull and Ian Drake travel from Missouri to Vermont, and while Ian is running away from his parents, Lucy contemplates if she is also fleeing from something rather than just helping Ian on his journey.