Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering by Margaret AtwoodMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Fourteen Days is an unusual collection of short stories by 36 authors edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston. Douglas Preston provided the overall narration with contributions of so many great diverse authors across all genres. I liked that you don't know who wrote what unless you skip to the very end and look. I didn't. I was so excited to read this. It is set in New York City at the start of the COVID pandemic which is shortly before I moved there. That made it all the more meaningful to me. My building residents did not gather though. We didn't exchange stories. The setting did bring up a lot of feelings for me. My mom died from COVID in a nursing home and having a main character with a father in a nursing home during that period really got to me. And while the stories are the meat of the book, there are also some mysterious things happening in the building that hint at something bigger going on.
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