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Really appreciated this collection of short essays, where women from all walks of life share their experiences, centered on the first months of the pandemic in 2020. Reading these pieces feels like a piece of living history. The cancer survivor, the lesbian artist, the mother of two sons with developmental disabilities at risk in a group home, the indigenous grandmother who looks to the earth and the stories of her heritage to make sense of this new world, yet still misses her grandkids. Those l...
(Her)oics is a collection of beautifully crafted essays by women about life during the Coronavirus pandemic, but it also so much more. Each piece provides an intimate view of life for a woman with her own struggles, her own unique experiences, and illuminates how those experiences were shaped by the rest of her life leading up to that moment. Like the flash of a photographer's bulb, you see everything for a brief moment in time, though the images linger much longer. Read about nurses treated as
Amazing!!! Very diverse stories from brilliant writers.
This collection of essays written by resilient women during the Coronavirus pandemic is remarkable. This work is important not only to record history, but to provide hope to others. I truly appreciated reading these lived experiences. It’s a book that bonds us together in a time when we need it most.
These are remarkable times and call on all of us to become even more remarkable people. I bow to these women and hope all can read their stories of courage, failure, despair and love. In addition, these stories give proof to what some of us have known all along: that the challenges, deep service and heart opening of motherhood can be an enlightenment intensive. Motherhood in a pandemic is a master course.
Maybe I'm a bit biased because I have an essay in this book, but I'm honored and humbled to be in such good company and comforted to know that this past year's hardships and isolation have been a shared experience. The editors and writers for this collection have chosen a variety of forms from poetry to experimental and traditional narratives in which to express themselves. The work represents a wide swath across pandemic experiences and illustrates that even when they are behind the scenes, wom...
This book is a collection of 52 essays about women's lives during the pandemic. There are multiple readers and the essays are varied and well-written. It wasn't easy to listen to, and I took a couple of breaks just to ease the tension. Think how terrible the situation was if just reading reading it made it stressful! The essay by a nurse in a Minneapolis hospital was one of the most harrowing of them all. The absolute unconcern about the health of the healthcare workers was a blow to my unrealis...
