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'The Great Believers' Author Rebecca Makkai Headlines One Book Event

By Ebone Monet / Speak City Heights Reporter
Published September 19, 2019 at 11:15 AM PDT
This story was published more than 4 years ago.
The cover of "The Great Believers" is pictured.
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The cover of "The Great Believers" is pictured.
'The Great Believers' Author Rebecca Makkai Headlines One Book Event
One Book, One San Diego is a partnership between KPBS and 80 libraries across the county to get the public reading and discussing the same book. This year’s One Book selection is “The Great Believers” a novel set in Chicago in the 80s at the height of the AIDS crisis. Author Rebecca Makkai spoke with KPBS Evening Edition anchor Ebone Monet about the book’s theme of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss.
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One Book, One San Diego is a partnership between KPBS and 80 libraries across the county.

The idea is to bring the community together by reading and discussing the same book.

This year's One Book selection for adult readers is "The Great Believers" by Rebecca Makkai. The novel is set in Chicago, in the 1980s at the height of the AIDS crisis. It's a story of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss.

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Makkai will be the keynote speaker at a One Book, One San Diego event Thursday. The event will begin at 7 p.m. at Balboa Theatre in downtown San Diego. Terry Cunningham, the retired head of the San Diego County public health department's STD, HIV and Hepatitis Branch, will also be speaking at the event. He'll discuss the fight against AIDS in San Diego. The event will also include a performance by the San Diego Gay Men's Chorus.

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Ebone Monet
Ebone Monet is a San Diego native and University of California, Los Angeles graduate. Ebone is veteran journalist who came to KPBS from RTV6 in Indianapolis, Indiana. There she covered major international events such as the Indy 500 and Super Bowl XLVI. She also reported extensively on the Circle City's rising murder rate. Ebone Monet was on the ground reporting as hundreds of people evacuated the Richmond Hill subdivision following a deadly home explosion. Prior to her work in Indianapolis Ebone was a reporter for KTHV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Some of the major stories she covered included devastating natural disasters, search-and-rescue effort following the 2010 flash floods that killed 20 people in the Ouachita National Forest. In addition Ebone reported on the 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak and recovery efforts.
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