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Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 by Jennifer Haupt
1 review
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emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.0
I really love the idea behind this collection, and think it is amazing how many authors contributed to support independent booksellers!
I wish I had read it when it first came out, because it definitely does not feel nearly as relevant one year into the pandemic. The essays that lament being unable to see family and friends for 8 whole weeks take on a very strange sense when you have been quarantining for a year. The book also has a major theme of togetherness, written when most people were still observing strict COVID precautions. This also lands differently after so many people began prematurely pushing for business as usual.
I wish I had read it when it first came out, because it definitely does not feel nearly as relevant one year into the pandemic. The essays that lament being unable to see family and friends for 8 whole weeks take on a very strange sense when you have been quarantining for a year. The book also has a major theme of togetherness, written when most people were still observing strict COVID precautions. This also lands differently after so many people began prematurely pushing for business as usual.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Grief, Medical content, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Racism
Minor: Police brutality
Some essays are pretty devastating, many are hopeful. It is a very mixed bag.
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