“Fourteen Days” by Various (2024)

“Call me 1A.”

I wondered if it was still too soon to leap into a book that’s specifically about the 2020 pandemic. But upon learning it’s a collaborate novel featuring some of the biggest names from across the gamut of genres, I’m on board. This book is possibly like any I’ve ever read. Broadly, it’s a set of short stories with an overarching narrative to peg them to, but it’s so much more than that. Because each story has been written by one of the greats – and you don’t know who they are.

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