Life feels kind of like a Karen Thompson Walker novel right now—specifically, the author’s novel The Dreamers, in which a mysterious sleeping disease tears through a small California community. Quarantine life, makeshift hospitals, having to visit with sick family members through glass—elements of our global reality that were practically unfathomable to most of us when the book was released in early 2019—feature heavily in her story about coping in a time of societal collapse. Her 2012 novel The Age of Miracles took a similarly human approach to the beginning of the end of the world, albeit within a much different premise (in that one, the Earth’s rotation slowed so that the days grew longer and ecological devastation ensued).
Life feels kind of like a Karen Thompson Walker novel right now—specifically, the author’s novel, in which a mysterious sleeping disease tears through a small California community. Quarantine life, makeshift hospitals, having to visit with sick family members through glass—elements of our global reality that were practically unfathomable to most of us when the book was released in early 2019—feature heavily in her story about coping in a time of societal collapse.
It felt really uncanny at first, just seeing details that I had imagined or gotten from history then appearing in our daily newspaper. The one that jumps out at me is that I put into my book this moment where one of the characters, Ben, is trying to go see his wife, who’s in the isolation ward, and he finds a way to see her through a window.
I’ve never been so thankful for the internet. My daughter’s in kindergarten and she’s super social. I think she’s adapting but at first it felt so worrisome, like, school and seeing her friends is her life and she loves it. It’s been reassuring, she and this really good friend of hers do FaceTime everyday for long periods. I feel so grateful for that. If this happened even 10 years ago…especially if it goes on for a long time.
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