Voices from the pandemic : Americans tell their stories of crisis, courage and resilience / Eli Saslow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saslow, Eli, author.

Contributor:

Eileen M. Lawrence Humanities and Social Science Acquisitions Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--United States--Anecdotes.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Americans--Interviews.

Americans.

United States--Social conditions--21st century.

United States.

Social conditions.

Genre:

interviews.

Anecdotes

Interviews

Anecdotes.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

x, 220 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Anchor Books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Anchor Books, 2022.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Eileen M. Lawrence Humanities and Social Science Acquisitions Fund.

ISBN:

0593312791

9780593312797

OCLC:

1291876041

Publisher Number:

99995080015