Koolaids

“Daring, dazzling  . . . A tough, funny, heart-breaking book” by the National Book Award–nominated author of An Unnecessary Woman ( The Seattle Times ).   Detailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic in America and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut on a circle of friends and their families during the 1980s and 1990s, this “absolutely brilliant” novel mines the chaos of contemporary experience, telling the stories of characters who can no longer love or think except in fragments (