Trammell Hudson reviewed A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
Scary accurate predictions for a post-pandemic world
4 stars
Pinsker manages to accurately predict so many of the societal changes that occur due to a pandemic. Her descriptions of the discomfort that people feel with personal-space after growing up in isolation and only seeing people in video-chat or VR really capture the (post?) pandemic anxieties about crowds, public transit, restaurants, etc. And her description of the apartment wall of post-it notes with "what used to be normal" reminded me of all the normal things that we, quite sadly, no longer do.
Pinsker manages to accurately predict so many of the societal changes that occur due to a pandemic. Her descriptions of the discomfort that people feel with personal-space after growing up in isolation and only seeing people in video-chat or VR really capture the (post?) pandemic anxieties about crowds, public transit, restaurants, etc. And her description of the apartment wall of post-it notes with "what used to be normal" reminded me of all the normal things that we, quite sadly, no longer do.