A review by jenswagner
Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel by The Authors Guild, Douglas Preston, Margaret Atwood

4.0

I found this book strangely compelling & really interesting in light of the level of collaboration it involved between all of the authors to make it work. It’s a collection of stories by various authors embedded in a well crafted novel about tenants in an apartment building in nyc coming together on their roof each night at the beginning of Covid lockdown. It’s now been long enough that it’s not entirely panic inducing to read about that time, but still quite emotional and impactful. Many of the stories are beautiful and compelling and some are not but the overall ambience of the book moved me. The end helped me with some of the chaotic jumble that the book necessarily involved