After A Country of Ghosts introduced me to the Black Star series by AK Press, I decided to dive into Grievers by adrienne maree brown. It is a decidedly different story that focuses heavily on the nature of grief and loss in a community devastated by a plague. I know a lot of stories I…
At least once a year, it feels like the news highlights an outbreak of some dangerous disease. Very often it’s contagious, with disastrous side effects and varying numbers of fatalities. I myself was quarantined to the University of Delaware campus during the outbreak of swine flu in 2009. The Center for Disease Control was brought…
