Conversation

“One of the things that Virginia Woolf says in that essay is that illness doesn’t have a plot. It can be, as you say, the same thing day after day. I think it’s why we like stories that have miracle cures or some sort of resiliency. There’s a lot of literature by survivors who say, Could we stop with the health journey motif? It’s not like that, and it puts too much pressure on people. Most of it is this mundane trying to get by.” #chronicillness #disability #LongCovid
https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/05/the-1918-flu-pandemic-changed-literature-more-than-you-think/