{"product_id":"writing-covid-19-lives-irene-gammel-9781041231547","title":"Writing COVID-19 Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWriting COVID-19 Lives\u003c\/em\u003e examines how people turned to life writing--often in fragile, makeshift forms--to make sense of the pandemic. Across poetry, memoir, autofiction, photography, sketchbooks, diaries, postcards, and digital storytelling, the collection traces a pandemic aesthetic marked by brevity, fracture, and pause: an autobiographical \"I\" that is unsettled, doubled, or dispersed. As Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes in \u003cem\u003eNotes on Grief\u003c\/em\u003e, \"You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language.\" That grasping--the search for a voice that could still speak--threads through these essays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning case studies from Canada, the United States, China, Latvia, Peru, the United Kingdom, and Spain, the volume situates these works amid uneven conditions of care, precarity, surveillance, and loss. We encounter poetry written into silence; memoirs shaped by Zoom-mediated mourning; autofiction working through trauma; and photographic diaries--such as Marvin Heiferman's \u003cem\u003ePhotographic Shiva\u003c\/em\u003e--that turn domestic objects into charged residues of grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than offering a single story of \"the pandemic,\" the volume assembles a textured archive of how lives were written--tenderly, urgently, and sometimes beautifully--under unprecedented constraint. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Irene Gammel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1041231547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781041231547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.39d","brand":"Irene Gammel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48460290359551,"sku":"9781041231547","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_47acbfdc-50a4-4437-8872-f1251ec7d27d.jpg?v=1777413774","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/writing-covid-19-lives-irene-gammel-9781041231547","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}