“Denial is not an effective life strategy,” Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, told the world as his state struggled to cope with unprecedented numbers of deaths, inadequate protective gear for hospital workers, and overwhelmed mortuaries.
Denial was totally ineffective as the numbers rose, and later, when some communities opened bars and churches and eagerly embraced their former social lives, only to experience the numbers of the infected grow and one thousand Americans a day dying of the virus.
Here 36 writers from the US, the UK, Australia, Turkey, Britain, Bosnia and Herzegovina share their experiences of death, dying, grief, and recovery in poetry, stories, memoirs. A dozen belong to the Kansas Authors Club. Muslims, writers of different races and religions helping readers traverse this time of international pandemic to find companionship as death crosses their paths. Proceeds go to international health care workers. Available to order at all bookstores and at Amazon. $12 paper/$6.99 ebook,
