People in Trouble
Sarah Schulman
'A book of resistance and love, as urgently necessary now as it was thirty years ago' Olivia Laing
First published in 1990, discover this blistering novel about a love triangle in New York during the AIDS crisis. The perfect novel to read after bingeing It's A Sin.
It was the beginning of the end of the world but not everyone noticed right away.
It is the late 1980s. Kate, an ambitious artist, lives in Manhattan with her husband Peter. She's having an affair with Molly, a younger lesbian who works part-time in a movie theater.
At one of many funerals during an unbearably hot summer, Molly becomes involved with a guerrilla activist group fighting for people with AIDS. But Kate is more cautious, and Peter is bewildered by the changes he's seeing in his city and, most crucially, in his wife.
Soon the trio learn how tragedy warps even the closest relationships, and that anger - and its absence - can make the difference between life and death.
'Strong, nervy and challenging' New York Times
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Olivia Laing A scathing and darkly hilarious apocalypse-now
The Nation
Strong, nervy and challenging
The New York Times
Startlingly powerful
Dorothy Allison A witty, angry and anguished novel
Publishers Weekly
The questions that the novel stages about action, complicity, and discomfort are evergreen, but they resonate with particular force for any American trying to figure out their relationship to Trump and Trumpism now
Peter C. Baker
The New Yorker
This is the first work of fiction I've read about AIDS that portrays the enormous activist response the epidemic has generated...Schulman's people are fighters...terrifically inspiring examples of the human spirit's passion for revival
David Leavitt This emotional book won't make the walls of repression crumble, but it might make you understand this painful, hopeful moment better
The Village Voice