Encountering COVID

Abstract

Michelle Fishburne\'s Who We Are Now: Stories of What Americans Lost and Found during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023) is an edited collection of interviews recorded in-person across the US between September 2020 and September 2021. Asking only one question--What was your 2020 supposed to be like and what did it end up being?--Fishburne documented a range of vivid Covid encounters. Southern Spaces presents seven of these narratives prefaced by an edited conversation between Fishburne and three members of our Covid series team: Mary Frederickson, Abigayle Mazzocco, and Allen Tullos.

Keywords

• Health
• Memory and Memorial Cultures
• Long Read