A review by cdemi12
Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City by Fang Fang

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

I almost wish I read this in 2020 when the book came out. I feel so desensitized to what we have been through for the past 18 months. Perhaps for that reason, the book felt a bit slow. But I understand the urgency that its readership felt. These diary entries were what kept people going during the most strict lockdown and during the scariest moment of Wuhan’s epidemic. Fang Fang writes with confidence and courage, and she made me feel just as angry. I’m angry at those Chinese officials for not taking action, and I’m angry at my government for the same. It’s late 2021, and I’m still not back to “normal” life. This book helped remind me of the gravity of this historical event we’re all living in.