He provides a vivid account of working in a busy hospital during the Covid pandemic.
(One World, $27.) Fisher’s memoir is about his life as an emergency room doctor at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he has worked for the past 20 years. Gregory Cowles Senior Editor, Books Twitter: EMERGENCY: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER, by Thomas Fisher. In fiction, besides Moss and Tyler we recommend Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel and a story collection from Megan Mayhew Bergman. Davis’s in-depth look at the rising fortunes of the American bald eagle, Daniel Levin Becker’s joyful study of rap lyrics and two histories of the Democratic Party that also chart its future prospects. doctor’s memoir of life in the pandemic (Thomas Fisher’s “The Emergency”), as well as two novels that both incorporate Covid as a plot point, Anne Tyler’s “French Braid” and Sarah Moss’s “The Fell.”Īlso on deck this week: David George Haskell’s affectionate but anxious tribute to the vanishing sounds of the natural world, Jack E.
Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts’ influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation.įull of heartbreak and hilarity, French Braid is classic Anne Tyler: a stirring, uncannily insightful novel of tremendous warmth and humor that illuminates the kindnesses and cruelties of our daily lives, the impossibility of breaking free from those who love us, and how close-yet how unknowable-every family is to itself.Covid has been with us long enough that it’s steadily showing up in books now - and good ones, not just the rushed-out clip jobs that try to capitalize on readers’ fickle attention spans. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family’s orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin.
They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart.
The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author-a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family’s foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild in our pandemic present.
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