A review by queerofthedagger
How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS by David France

challenging emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

This somehow combines the stark history and a personal memoir of the AIDS epidemic, and it's exactly as important, harrowing, and needed as that sounds. While it is very US, and within that New York-centred, I think especially for my younger generation of queer people this is a highly, highly needed read. That aside, the one thing really sitting not well with me were the repeated Holocaust comparisons, even though I realize that it was a commonly used figure. Still, such a personal, not-sparing-anything documentation of the fight against AIDS, and how much we only had, and only have, ourselves to thank for everything that has been accomplished.