From Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Eli
Saslow, a powerful portrait of a country grappling with the pandemic,
told through voices of people from all across America
The
Covid-19 pandemic was a world-shattering event, affecting everyone in
the nation. From its first ominous stirrings, renowned journalist Eli
Saslow began interviewing a cross-section of Americans, capturing their
experiences in real time: An exhausted and anguished EMT risking his
life in New York City; a grocery store owner feeding his neighborhood
for free in locked-down New Orleans; an overwhelmed coroner in Georgia; a
Maryland restaurateur forced to close his family business after
forty-six years; an Arizona teacher wrestling with her fears and her
obligations to her students; rural citizens adamant that the whole thing
is a hoax, and retail workers attacked for asking people to wear masks;
patients struggling to breathe and doctors desperately trying to save
them.
Through Saslow's masterful, empathetic interviewing, we are
given a kaleidoscopic picture of a people dealing with the
unimaginable. These deeply personal accounts make for cathartic
reading, as we see Americans at their worst, and at their resilient
best.
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