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   > Hi All...   
   > When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it...   
   >In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron: one hundred nested tales told   
   >by a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside Florence   
   > while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25   
   > million people. Some of the stories are silly, some are bawdy, some are like   
   > fables.   
   > In March 2020, the editors of The New York Times Magazine worked to create a   
   > collection of stories written just as the pandemic first swept the globe. How   
   > might new fiction from some of today's finest writers help us memorialize and   
   > understand the unimaginable? And what could be learned about how this crisis   
   > will affect the art of fiction?   
      
   Hmm, I''m intrigued, & looked both titles up on Z-Lib -- nada yet for either.   
   . .:(  & it didnt offer me the option to request it, as it's done for me   
   before.  Oh, well; I've put both of these on my to-read list -- I love a good   
   sety of  themed short stories.   
      
   I found one, paperback, written by immigrants telling their stories from a    
   subjective POV -- powerful stuff! Heartfelt & real. Here's the Z-Lib pagefor    
   it:   
   https://ca1lib.org/book/6154760/cae595   
      
   A delightful reasd -- especi8ally the first story that'll really sdock it   
   home  to the reader about the emotional turnmoil & stresss many young   
   immigrant women face, from whichever culture -- this just happens to be told   
   from one.   
      
   >These Stories from Quarantine by twenty-nine authors vary widely in texture an   
   > tone. The work is a historical tribute to a moment unlike any other in our   
   > lifetimes, offering perspective and solace to the reader now and in the   
   > uncertain future.   
   > Table of Contents:   
   > "Preface" by Caitlin Roper   
   > "Introduction" by Rivka Galchen   
   > "Recognition" by Victor LaValle   
   > "A Blue Sky Like This" by Mona Awad   
   > "The Walk" by Kamila Shamsie   
   > "Tales from the LA River" by Colm T?ib?n   
   > "Clinical Notes" by Liz Moore   
   > "The Team" by Tommy Orange   
   > "The Rock" by Leila Slimani   
   > "Impatient Griselda" by Margaret Atwood   
   > "Under the Magnolia" by Yiyun Li   
   > "Outside" by Etgar Keret   
   > "Keepsakes" by Andrew O?Hagan   
   > "The Girl with the Big Red Suitcase" by Rachel Kushner   
   > "The Morningside" by T?a Obreht   
   > "Screen Time" by Alejandro Zambra   
   > "How We Used to Play" by Dinaw Mengestu   
   > "Line 19 Woodstock/Glisan" by Karen Russell   
   > "If Wishes Was Horses" by David Mitchell   
   > "Systems" by Charles Yu   
   > "The Perfect Travel Buddy" by Paolo Giordano   
   > "An Obliging Robber" by Mia Couto   
   > "Sleep" by Uzodinma Iweala   
   > "Prudent Girls" by Rivers Solomon   
   > "That Time at My Brother?s Wedding" by Laila Lalami   
   > "A Time of Death, The Death of Time" by Juli?n Fuks   
   > "The Cellar" by Dina Nayeri   
   > "Origin Story" by Matthew Baker   
   > "To the Wall" by Esi Edugyan   
   > "Barcelona: Open City" by John Wray   
   > "One Thing" by Edwidge Danticat   
   > Stories from Quarantine | Paperback   
      
   So that be the TOC? Do you havethe Z-Lib link? is it on there yet?   
      
   I searched the title only & set the publishing yeasr to 2022-02022, but nada    
   matching -- lots of partial matches showed up, but not the one you're   
   speaking  of, & searching for the Decameron only broughht up a bunch of US   
   political  stuff.. .    
      
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