
David Means Reads Lorrie Moore
The New Yorker: Fiction
The Importance of Frontline Intervention in Aging
I think this is a story of COVID and what it did to a lot of people. There's a lot of little political, socio-political commentary going on in that section of the story. Even within the story we have the narrator sort of saying I'm not the worst hit. This is a terrible situation. He's seeing her father die on FaceTime. But she's later taking us all to task for claiming to suffer from disease that made us just have to clean our houses or stay home in our suburban bubbles when other people were doing the dying.
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