Title Alone together : love, grief, and comfort in the time of COVID-19 / edited by Jennifer Haupt ; [illustrations, Ailsa Weisnewski ; foreword by Garth Stein].

Publication Info.	[Chicago, Illinois] : Central Avenue Publishing, 2020.
	©2020

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Description	viii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents	Foreword / by Garth Stein -- Introduction / by Jennifer Haupt -- What now? -- Grieve -- Comfort -- Connect -- And do not stop.
Summary	Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19 is a collection of essays, poems, and interviews to serve as a lifeline for negotiating how to connect and thrive during this stressful time of isolation as well as a historical perspective that will remain relevant for years to come. All net profits will be donated to The Book Industry Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit organization that coordinates charitable programs to strengthen the bookselling community. Ms. Haupt rallied a diverse roster of more than 90 authors to contribute their work to Alone Together, free of charge, including Kwame Alexander, Jenna Blum, Andre Dubus III, Jamie Ford, Nikki Giovanni, Pam Houston, Jean Kwok, Major Jackson, Caroline Leavitt, Ada Limón, Dani Shapiro, David Sheff, Garth Stein, Luis Alberto Urrea, Steve Yarbrough, and Lidia Yuknavitch. The overarching theme is how this age of isolation and uncertainty holds the possibility of changing us as individuals and a society.
	A collection of essays, poems, and interviews to serve as a lifeline for negotiating how to connect and thrive during the stressful time of isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic. A diverse roster of more than ninety authors discuss the overarching theme is how this age of isolation and uncertainty holds the possibility of changing us as individuals and a society. Valuable from a historical perspective that will remain relevant for years to come.
Subject	COVID-19 (Disease) -- Prevention.
	Quarantine -- Psychological aspects.
	COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects.
	Epidemics -- Social aspects.
	COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects (OCoLC)fst01984649
	Epidemics -- Social aspects (OCoLC)fst00914088
Genre/Form	Essays (OCoLC)fst01919922
	Interviews (OCoLC)fst01423832
	Poetry (OCoLC)fst01423828
	Essays.
	Poetry.
	Interviews.
Added Author	Haupt, Jennifer (Journalist), editor, writer of introduction.
	Weisnewski, Ailsa, illustrator.
	Stein, Garth, writer of foreword.
Added Title	Love, grief, and comfort in the time of Covid-19
ISBN	9781771682282 (paperback)
	1771682280 (paperback)

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