Rat Bohemia
by Sarah Schulman
[b:The Gentrification of the Mind|12798674|The Gentrification of the Mind Witness to a Lost Imagination|Sarah Schulman|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1320526309s/12798674.jpg|17946935] was incredible, but Rat Bohemia gives the lowest point of the AIDS epidemic the emotional depth I'd never quite grasped from the facts. The mid-1990s New York City it paints is saturated with death and friendship and resentment and activism and politics and family and pain and death and death and death.