I had this essay collection in my TBR for a few years and I wish I had listened to it sooner. Smith's narration of her work was wonderful to listen to, I haven't read any of her other work but after today I will definitely start. The first of her essays were more on what was going through her mind when COVID-19 start to infect the world and inevitable cause everyone to quarantine, willingly or not. As she continues to write her thoughts, she starts to highlight the inequality certain minority groups had to face in everyday life and how they were heightened during the virus's peak infection rate and caused most people to be forced to acknowledge these facts. I am not as well versed in reading essay collection, but I will be revisiting this collection in the future to see what I overlooked the first time.