I wanted to like this book, but so much of it was a slog. It’s about a pandemic, coincidentally taking place over the fall and early winter of 2021, and yet unfolding at a slightly different rate than the one that hit us all in 2019. Nawaz can’t be blamed for getting some of the mundane aspects of quarantine wrong, although much of her understanding of how cities, states and countries respond with various measures that may or may not be effective bares a certain […]