A review by alyssabookrecs
Plays for the Plague Year by Suzan-Lori Parks

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

This was very cathartic to read and I imagine is even more cathartic to watch. Someone else’s review said something along the lines of the farther away we get from COVID quarantine time, the more this collection will resonate, and I couldn’t agree more. I wouldn’t have been able to read this even 1-2 years ago, but now almost 5 years since the onset of COVID, I am slowly coming to terms with how fucked up that time was. Suzan-Lori Park writes with authenticity, honesty, and personality. I loved how it vacillated between the stories of the living and the stories of the dead. We lost so many due to COVID and still are losing people. May we remember them.

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