![]() I learned that the flu hit Philadelphia hard-12,000 residents died during the pandemic. And people turning on each other as they disagreed about various containment measures. Then the experience of quarantining, social isolation, no crowds, shopping, or school. I listened intently as characters in puffed-sleeve long dresses who rode on streetcars experienced the same things I was experiencing or watching on TV: grief, death, and invisible contagions zipping through crowds and killing later. ![]() Author Susan Meissner could never have known (nor could any of us) about the pandemic she, too, would live through. ![]() Told through the eyes of four women, a mother and her three daughters, As Bright As Heaven was released in 2018 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the Spanish flu. I listened to this historical novel about the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, and I was transfixed by the similarities. ![]()
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