The long-awaited new novel by America's master playwright and activist-a radical reimagining of our history and our hopes and fears

Forty years in the making?? The American People embodies Larry Kramer's vision of his beloved and accursed homeland. As the founder of ACT UP and the author of Faggots and The Normal Heart?? Kramer has decisively affected American lives and letters. Here?? as only he can?? he tells the heartbreaking and heroic story of one nation under a plague?? contaminated by greed?? hate?? and disease yet host to transcendent acts of courage and kindness.

In this magisterial novel's sweeping first volume?? which runs up to the 1950s?? we meet prehistoric monkeys who spread a peculiar virus?? a Native American shaman whose sexual explorations mutate into occult visions?? and early English settle