So when the residents of the Fernsby Arms, a down-at-heel Manhattan apartment block, begin to gather on its roof in the early days of the pandemic, it is unsurprising that the yarns they spin are filled with as much death, separation and loss as diversion and entertainment; the stories' tellers are killing time just as they are terrified that time will kill them.
Most strikingly, this is not the work of a single creator but of 36 writers marshalled by editors Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston, who include John Grisham, Meg Wolitzer, Dave Eggers and Celeste Ng, as well as the editors themselves. The stories are both anonymous and not; a list at the end of the book will tell you who wrote what, but within the text itself, you will have no idea.
[
add
]
[
|
|
...
]