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1 Review
Prescient and Sweeping Page-Turner
by LPL Patron20433, London, Ontario on 07-06-2020
I read this wonderful book in the space of a few days, captured by Saleema Nawaz's compelling writing style, sympathetic characters, and the relevant and timely storyline Big themes of life: interconnectedness, love, betrayal, fear, courage, family, friendships, art, history, community are all explored within the backdrop of a developing coronavirus pandemic playing out in New York City and Boston. The research the author did served her book well: as a reader who is also living in pandemic times, I could relate well to many of the situations and marvel at the same time how the author got it all 'spot on' in so many ways, predicting the shortage of PPE, crowded hospitals, burned-out essential workers, pronouncements by the CDC, etc. But this novel is much, much more than a pandemic novel, it is a grand and sweeping story with many interweaving mini-plots (many set in academia) that left me completely satisfied at the end, while at the same time, sad to leave the world and characters that she created. But THEN I was even MORE happy to step back into my OWN world, my own family, my own community with a clearer heart about what is important, and the value of pulling together. This is NOT a dystopian novel, in my view, but an extremely hopeful, entertaining and illuminating one that invites us to explore all they ways that we can be in the world, with ourselves and with each other. Do not forget to read the author interview at the end!
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428 pages ; 21 cm
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From the award-winning, Canada Reads-shortlisted author of Bone and Bread comes an immersive and eerily prescient novel about the power of human connection in a time of crisis, as the bonds of love, family, and duty are tested by an impending pandemic. This is the story of a handful of people who find themselves living through an unfolding catastrophe. Elliot is a first responder in New York, a man running from past failures and struggling to do the right thing. Emma is a pregnant singer preparing to headline a benefit concert for victims of the outbreak--all while questioning what kind of world her child is coming into. Owen is the author of a bestselling plague novel with eerie similarities to the real-life pandemic. As fact and fiction begin to blur, he must decide whether his lifelong instinct for self-preservation has been worth the cost. As the novel moves back and forth in time, we discover these characters' ties to one another--and to those whose lives intersect with theirs--in an extraordinary web of connection and community that reveals none of us is ever truly alone. Linking them all is the mystery of the so-called ARAMIS Girl, a woman at the first infection site whose unknown identity and whereabouts cause a furor. Written and revised between 2013 and 2019, and brilliantly told by an unforgettable chorus of voices, Saleema Nawaz's glittering novel is a moving and hopeful meditation on what we owe to ourselves and to each other. It reminds us that disaster can bring out the best in people--and that coming together may be what saves us in the end.
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9780771072574 (trade paperback) $24.95
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