name the five stories you read during the pandemic
Answers
Answer:
Bird box,The stand,The plague,The companions,Station Eleven
Explanation:
In many months this list contains five novels—but never before has it consisted of five story collections. Given the global pandemic, its effects on economies, and everyone’s anxieties, some of us are getting lost in long, complicated sagas—witness Yiyun Li’s #TolstoyTogether online book group.
Five Recent Story Collections For Your Pandemic Reading
Titles You Might Have Missed From March
By Bethanne Patrick
April 21, 2020
In many months this list contains five novels—but never before has it consisted of five story collections. Given the global pandemic, its effects on economies, and everyone’s anxieties, some of us are getting lost in long, complicated sagas—witness Yiyun Li’s #TolstoyTogether online book group.
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Cai Emmons, Vanishing: Five Stories
(Leapfrog Press)
Short but very smart, Vanishing examines how modern women still disappear in plain sight, from others, yes, but also from themselves. An attorney and young mother begins to wonder if her house malfunctions when her husband is absent. An obese model for a life-drawing class terrifies a younger female student, who sees the model’s body as “one massive private part.” Each character Emmons creates has her assumptions shattered by prejudice, illness, violence, and each must emerge on the other side of vanishing to either build new identities, or accept invisibility.
Frying Plantain follows Kara Davis through her adolescence, living in Canada but of Jamaican roots, constantly wondering where she belongs in a world that doesn’t seem to accept her dual identity or either side of it. In Jamaica, Kara startles at finding a pig’s head in the icebox; in Canada, her classmates cruelly trick her. Reid-Benta’s 12 interconnected stories form a roman à clef that presents life for immigrants in a developed country with better manners than the United States, but just as much conflict between members of different races, nations, and socioeconomic levels.
The Ice-Cream Man and Other Stories has very little in common with most literary fiction you’ve read, yet its form isn’t experimental, either. Pink’s urban realism relies on single sentences to convey as much as a paragraph, or several, would in another writer’s work.
Rebecca Otowa, born in the US, raised in Australia, finished her education in Japan, earning an MA in Buddhist studies at Otani University—before marrying the 19th-generation heir to a 350-year-old farmhouse.
