Gasp!

It's a beautiful and haunting novel. I read it in the spring of 2020, and the isolation of quarantine made it all the more vivid and surreal.

Chat says absolutely yes.

This is amazing: Due to the demand, my library has now ordered an additional *130 copies* of this book. There are currently 679 holds on the hardcover and 1335 holds on the audiobook.

The audiobook has 481 holds on 41 copies.

My local library has 27 copies on order and is already up to 303 hold requests.

We find joy where we can.

My religious friend
tells me she believes
that we all died
in the pandemic,
and this
is actually the afterlife,
so I asked her why
she was still taking precautions
if we are already in hell,
and she replied
that this is only purgatory
so what we do now
determines where we go next.